The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness is now available.

 

Lila is featured in The New York Times Style Magazine: "The Best in Culture 2011."

 

Read Le Monde's and The New Yorker's reviews of The Enchanter.

 

A profile of Lila has been published in Le Nouvel Observateur, along with her translation of two letters by Nabokov.

 

Read the The Guardian/Observer's interview with Lila about The Enchanter.

 

Lila and The Enchanter are featured in The New York Times: "Reading ‘Lolita.’ Forgetting Tehran."

 

Read reviews of The Enchanter in The Scotsman, The Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. More Reviews »

 

Lila's essay "Reading Nabokov to Nabokov" is published in The Daily Beast—she tells the story of reading her own book to Nabokov's son during three days and three nights in Palm Beach, Florida.

 

Lila discusses The Enchanter on Bloomberg Television's Taking Stock, CBS News, and WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show.

 

Listen to Lila's interview on Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon: "Ecstasy on 3 x 5 Cards: Lila Azam Zanganeh’s Nabokov."

 

Lila took part in the Edinburgh International Book Festival this summer as Stuart Kelly's guest in the Giants of Modern Literature Series. Read an interview with Lila in The Scotsman.

 

Lila presented the Italian edition of The Enchanter at the Villa Medici in Rome on October 31, 2011.

 

Lila will host the Bozar Book Club in 2011 and 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. More Articles »

 

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"I have always dreaded reading and books. Yet I am about to tell the story of a handful of books which turned my fortunes. The adventures on which they sent me were entirely imaginary. Or at least, at first they were. They required no visits to reclusive Amazonian tribes or inhabitants of remote Muscovy. They took no toll on lazy feet and reluctant stomachs."

 

[From Foreword to THE ENCHANTER: Nabokov and Happiness: "Why Read This or Any Other Books?"]