Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our twenty-eighth episode, we court controversy with Vladimir Nabokov's surreal paedophile road trip, Lolita (1955). It's got more unreliable narration, 1950s consumerism, and untranslated French than you can stomach.

Cover art © Catherine Wu.

Episode theme: Tchaikovsky's 'Serenade for Strings', covered by Freddy Martin and his Orchestra

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