December 2019 Issue Donald Rayfield Pride, Prejudice & Pushkin Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor By Vladimir Nabokov (Edited by Brian Boyd & Anastasia Tolstoy)
July 1999 Issue Brenda Maddox The Woman Behind the Wheel Véra (Mrs Véra Nabokov): Portrait of a Marriage By Stacy Schiff
October 2018 Issue Ian Sansom Stranger Than Fiction The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World By Sarah Weinman
May 2017 Issue Mark Dunbar Stings Like a Butterfly The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship By Alex Beam LR
November 1990 Issue Paul Taylor Before He Went to Live on the Mountain Top Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years By Brian Boyd LR
June 2016 Issue Nigel Andrew Lolita’s Lepidopterist Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art By Stephen H Blackwell & Kurt Johnson (edd) LR
August 2015 Issue Ian Sansom Like April in Arizona Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita By Robert Roper LR
September 2014 Issue Donald Rayfield His Better Half Letters to Véra By Vladimir Nabokov (Translated and edited by Olga Voronina & Brian Boyd) LR
December 2009 Issue David Lodge Shored Against His Ruins The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments By Vladimir Nabokov
May 2008 Issue Donald Rayfield Strolls with Vladimir Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics By Nina L Khrushcheva
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