Introduction : the many faces of Vladimir Nabokov / Julian W. Connolly -- Strong opinions and nerve points : Nabokov's life and art / Zoran Kuzmanovich -- Nabokov as storyteller / Brian Boyd -- Nabokov as a Russian writer / Alexander Dolinin -- "By some sleight of land" : how Nabokov rewrote America / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney -- Nabokov and modernism / John Burt Foster, Jr. -- Nabokov as poet / Barry P. Scherr -- Nabokov's short fiction / Priscilla Meyer -- The major Russian novels / Julian W. Connolly -- From Sirin to Nabokov : the transition to English / Neil Cornwell -- Nabokov's biographical impulse : art of writing lives / Galya Diment -- The Lolita phenomenon from Paris to Tehran / Ellen Pifer -- Nabokov's late fiction / Michael Wood -- Nabokov and cinema / Barbara Wyllie -- Nabokov's worldview / Leona Toker