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

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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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