The Sweetness Of The Avisual Artist

from The Spectator UK John McEwan on the new book by Peter Mann and Sargy Mann This is the tribute of a child to a parent, especially commendable when the very concept of fatherhood is threatened; rarer still, the co-authors are themselves artists in their separate...

NATASHA by Vladimir Nabokov (Fiction from The New Yorker)

from The New Yorker NATASHA by Vladimir Nabokov   In the stairs Natasha ran into her neighbor from across the hall, Baron Wolfe. He was somewhat laboriously ascending the bare wooden steps, caressing the bannister with his hand and whistling softly through his teeth....

Nabokov At Last To Live

from the New York Observer Wylie Agency Adds Nabokov Estate To Its Client List BY LEON NEYFAKH Getty Images Less than a month after Dmitri Nabokov announced, following years of indecision, that he would publish his late father Vladimir’s unfinished final novel, The...

Chinese Democracy Unleashed

from Billboard Purported New Guns N’ Roses Tracks Hit The Web Think you’ve been waiting forever for “Chinese Democracy”? Guns N’ Roses isn’t the only band major artist who has kept fans waiting for a seemingly endless stretch...