Reviews

Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century by Jenny Minton Quigley

gloomyboygirl's review against another edition

3.0

I ended up DNFing halfway through because some recurring things in the essays were bothering me-- including Lolita Japanese fashion was my tipping point but overall it felt like a very surface level "book about pedophilia but what about us triggered lefties

notsumi's review

informative reflective medium-paced

3.25

shinaabikwe's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.0

emialexa's review

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

holoscenes's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative fast-paced

4.0

ally_alert's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective

5.0

mardy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

3.5

lifeinpoetry's review against another edition

4.0

I read around Lolita because it's a novel one is expected to have read if you have an English degree but I majored in Creative Writing - Poetry so...

I really, really dread it. I was glad to read this anthology of literary/film criticism, history, short stories, etc. focused on Lolita and its legacy.

da_mekah's review against another edition

4.0

This anthology gave a compelling and knowledgeable path of the ways Lolita has snuck into our media and our minds.

vdarcangelo's review against another edition

5.0

Faves:
Emily Mortimer - "Witness for the Defense: My Father and Lolita"
Stacy Schiff - "Vera and Lo"
Susan Choi - "Badge of Honor"
Laura Lippman - "Watching the Detective"
Lila Azam Zanganeh - "What We Talk About When We Talk About Lolita"
Kate Elizabeth Russell - "Maison Nymphette"
Kira von Eichel - "The Lollipop Room"