are not political, they are literary. "It took me decades to dare the attempt," he [Christopher Hitchens] writes in the introduction, "but finally I did write about Vladimir Nabokov." The result is a tentative, though brilliant, meditation on Lolita. I frequently disagreed--he underrates Updike and overrates Larkin--but I was never bored and always found myself questioning my own prejudices. Meanwhile, his review of Martin Amis's book on Stalin, Koba the Dread, is startling.from Bryan Appleyard: from The Sunday Times: Christopher Hitchens
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