A remarkably timely, probing, and nuanced collection! As someone who teaches Lolita every year I am keenly aware of the increasing (and rightfully so!) challenges that this instructional endeavor faces these days. I am therefore very grateful for this volume and deeply appreciative of all contributions it presents.

Galya Diment, University of Washington

In this collection of lucid and insightful essays, distinguished Nabokov scholars show us how to read an entrancingly beautiful novel that describes an unpardonable crime. By creating Lolita’s infamous narrator, Nabokov challenges us to see beyond Humbert Humbert’s silver-tongued eloquence and notice the suffering that it obscures. Rakhimova-Sommers’ volume demonstrates what Lolita can teach us in an era that holds out promise of confronting and ending the pervasive violence against women exposed by #MeToo.

Dana Dragunoiu, Carleton University