The 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, is in our news cycle here in New Zealand.
It's a book that follows a professor's obsession with, and abduction of, a twelve-year-old girl.
And why is it in the news? Because of the Epstein files.
The latest dump of documents connected to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein turned out a surprising New Zealand name.
Auckland academic Brian Boyd, a world-leading Nabokov scholar, had met with Epstein back in 2012 to discuss financing a book Boyd wanted to write about Lolita.
Brian Boyd joined Emile Donovan to talk about being in the files and the taint that comes with being associated with a figure like Epstein, for him, and for the book Lolita.
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