“Pale Fire” is having a cultural moment. It’s a modest cultural moment, as these things go — a major shout-out in a major motion picture, followed by a smaller reference in a smaller recent film — but ...

In this column, we deliver hot (and cold) takes on pop culture, judging whether a subject is overrated or underrated. Nabokov wrote another masterpiece, too – the perennially underrated Pale Fire.

John J. Miller is joined by Andrea Pitzer to discuss Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire. John J. Miller brings The Great Books podcast to a close. John J. Miller is joined by Peter Meilaender of Houghton ...

Presented as a poem with a foreword and commentary, Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Pale Fire is a postmodern masterpiece about a poet, a regal commentator and a would-be assassin. It defies all convention.