"Lolita" Blogs & Blog Posts

The first True Crime book I ever read was Robert Graysmith’s Zodiac—I spent my allowance on a trade-sized copy and was hooked. It’s (famously) his story of being a political cartoonist at the San Francisco Chronicle when the newspaper received...

The killer whale Tokitae, also known as Lolita, may finally be released after more than 50 years in captivity in the world's smallest orca enclosure.

Once upon a time, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman got stoned and discussed fidelity—the state of the union, if you will—for about 15 minutes straight, and for all the world to see. Not their union, but that of William and Alice, the characters they...

When I was teaching literature, I told my class that to have truly read a poem, one must read it three times. The first, to let the feeling and imagery of the text wash over the reader without stressing about meaning. The second, to look for meter an...

In 1996, when an 18-year-old Fiona Apple was wrapping up work on her seminal debut album, Tidal, executives from Sony Music asked her to write a “more obvious” first single. And so Apple, who wrote most of the album’s songs as a 16-year-old bat...

In 1999, Britney Spears appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone in a black bra and polka-dot panties, clutching a stuffed Teletubby in one hand and a pink princess phone in the other. Beside her, a caption calls her a “Teen Dream,” and in the firs...

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece. From Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955)Filed under: Photographs Tagged: architecture, Barcelona, church, Gaudí, Lolita, Nabokov, photography, Sagrada Familia, Spai...