A new scholarly almanac devoted to the art of Vladimir Nabokov. This inaugural collection features contributions from two dozen leading Nabokov scholars worldwide, including academic articles, roundtable discussions, interviews, archival materials; the Kyoto Nabokov conference report, and book reviews.

Slide Tackle (from the editor). Team (about the contributors). Field: Forum. Nabokov Studies: Strategic Development of the Field and Scholarly Cooperation. First Time Ball: Russian Nabokov. Orhan Pamuk and Vladimir Nabokov on Dostoevsky. Sacrificing the Maiden('s) Head: Decoding Nabokov's Burlesque of Sex and Violence in Invitation to a Beheading. Irony Behind the Iron Curtain: Internal Escape from Totalitarianism in Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading. Nabokov's Invitation to Plato's Beheading. Center Circle: Forum. Institutionalizing Nabokov: Museum, Archive, Exhibition. Narrowing the Angle: Memoir. A Neophyte's Collision with Vladimir Vladimirovich. Corner Arc: English Nabokov. Nabokov's Pale Fire and Alexander Pope. Picturing Memory, Puncturing Vision: Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire. Two Notes on Pale Fire. A Fold of the Marquisette: Nabokov's Lepidoptery in Visual Media. Goal Box: Interview. An Interview with Dmitiri Nabokov by Suellen Stringer-Hye, "Laura is Not Even the Original's Name." One Touch Pass: Nabokov across the Lines. "Which is Sebastian?" What's in a (Shakespearean and Nabokovian) Name? Aesthetics and Sin: The Nymph and the Faun in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun and Nabokov's Lolita. Nabokov and Prince D.S. Mirsky. Corner Flag: Interview. An Interview with Alvin Toffler by Yuri Leving, "Lost in Transit." Midfield Line: Forum. Teaching Nabokov. Red Card: Archive. "The book is dazzlingly brilliant... But": Two early internal reviews of Nabokov's The Gift. Dangerous Play: Conference. "Revising Nabokov Revising" Nabokov Conference in Kyoto. Penalty Area: Book Reviews. Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl all Over Again. Approaches to Teaching Nabokov's Lolita. Versus and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry, selected and translated by Vladimir Nabokov. Vladimir Nabokov, Tragediia gospadinaMorna: P'esy, lektsii o drame. Pekka Tammi, Russian Subtexts in Nabokov's Fiction: Four Essays. End Line: Bibliography. Index of Names.