Jan 4, 2010

A Guide to Berlin | What Do I Read Next?

Lolita, Nabokov’s darkly comic 1955 bestseller about a European professor’s sexual obsession with a precocious American twelve-year-old girl and the murder his passion for her drives him to commit.

Pale Fire, the much-praised 1962 novel by Nabokov that consists of a 999 line poem by the late poet John Shade, together with the odd foreword and scholarly commentary of an unhinged Shade scholar.

Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s (1972) explores various social, cultural, and scientific developments in Berlin between World Wars I and...