The Goalkeeper

The Goalkeeperis a new scholarly almanac devoted to the art of Vladimir Nabokov. Himself an ardent goalkeeper the author of Lolita viewed soccer as more than a game: I was less the keeper of a soccer goal than the keeper of a secret (Speak Memory). The inaugural collection features contributions from two dozen leading Nabokov scholars worldwide including academic articles (Neil Cornwell Gerard de Vries Samuel Schuman and others); roundtable discussions (Brian Boyd Jeff Edmunds Priscilla Meyer David Rampton Leona Toker); interviews (Dmitri Nabokov Alvin Toffler); archival materials; the Kyoto Nabokov conference report; and book reviews (Pekka Tammi Zoran Kuzmanovich Galya Diment). The Nabokov Almanac edited by Yuri Leving is affiliated with the Nabokov Online Journal published since 2007.