| Contents |
Witness for the defense: my father and Lolita / Emily Mortimer -- Véra and Lo / Stacy Schiff -- On the road with Humbert and Lolita / Ian Frazier -- Ugly beautiful / Roxane Gay -- Badge of honor / Susan Choi -- Watching the detective / Laura Lippman -- Lolita diary / Alexander Chee -- Delectatio Morosa / Lauren Groff -- Lolita, #MeToo, and myself / Morgan Jerkins -- Lolita, Chamonix, France, 2018 / Andre Dubus III -- The showgirl who discovered Lolita / Sarah Weinman -- Fashion's Lolita; fragile, subversive, and a paean to white femininity / Robin Givhan -- Lolita and the Empathetic Imagination / Jim Shepard -- How Lolita freed me from my own Humbert / Bindu Bansinath -- Ladies and gentlemen of the jury / Christina Baker Kline -- Charmed / Victor LaValle -- They stay the same age / Sloane Crosley -- Dear Sugar / Cheryl Strayed -- What we talk about when we talk about Lolita / Lila Azam Zanganeh -- Nabokov's rocking chair: Lolita at the movies / Tom Bissell -- Lo and behold / Jill Kargman -- Acquiring Lolita's language / Aleksandar Hemon -- Charlotte's complaint / Jessica Shattuck -- Lolita in the time of trigger warnings / Erika L. Sánchez -- Maison Nymphette / Kate Elizabeth Russell -- A living story of Lolita in Iraq / Zainab Salbi -- The lollipop room / Kira von Eichel -- The anti-monster / Claire Dederer -- Lolita in lockdown / Dani Shapiro -- I cannot get out said the starling / Mary Gaitskill. |
| Abstract |
"A vibrant collection of sharp and essential modern pieces on the perennially controversial Lolita, by a wide range of celebrated writers, edited by the daughter of Lolita's original publisher"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "A Vintage Books original" -- title page verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Lolita in the afterlife New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] 9781984898845 |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| LCCN | 2020033847 |
| ISBN | 9781984898838 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1984898833 (paperback) |
| ISBN | electronic book |
