Of course, Lolita is neither a pornographic novel nor pornographic film. But most of the criticism of both the 1955 novel and the 1962 and 1998 films debates whether it is or is not pornographic and ignores the adaptation of Nabokov's novel, particularly the...

Byline: Daniel Bates CAMPAIGNING mothers have forced Woolworths to withdraw a line of girls'bedroom furniture called 'Lolita'. The wooden bed with desk and cupboard, on sale through the firm's website for[pounds sterling]395, was aimed at girls as young as six. ...

Woolworths stores in Britain have stopped selling "Lolita" beds for young girls after a parents' organization complained because of the name's association with the famous novel about a pedophile.Woolworths said staff members who administered the retail chain's Web site that sold the beds had been...

At the New York Film Festival’s opening night party, which was held on Friday, Sept. 28, at the elegantly faded, labyrinthine Central Park restaurant Tavern on the Green, the actress LeeLee Sobieski approached an outdoor table and asked if she and her friends, the pleasantly...

In the following essay, Burns accounts for the positive critical reassessment of Kubrick's Lolita.

The surprise of Lolita is how enjoyable it is: it's the first new American comedy since those great days in the forties when Preston Sturges recreated comedy with verbal slapstick. Lolita is black slapstick and at times it's so far out that you gasp as you laugh. (p. 205) Perhaps the reviewers have been finding so many faults with Lolita because this is such an easy way to show off some fake kind of erudition: even newspaper reviewers can demonstrate that they're read a book by complain...