Philip Hensher

Vladimir Nabokov confesses to butterflies in the stomach

The writer and lepidopterophile admits that he once ate some butterflies in Vermont to find out whether they were poisonous

issue 09 November 2019
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  • Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to Editors

    Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy

    Penguin Classics, pp. 528, £25

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