"Automatization eats away at things, at clothes, at furniture, at our wives, and at our fear of war...
And so, in order to return sensation to our limbs, in order to make us feel objects, to make a stone
feel stony, man has been given the tool of art. "
Viktor Shklovsky, Theory of Prose
ARTICLES
1996
1. Phantom in Jerusalem: Or, the History of an Unrealized Visit. The Nabokovian, 37, 1996 Fall, pp. 30-44.
1997
2. Samuel Izrailevich: Pnin’s Character, Nabokov's Friend. The Nabokovian. 39, 1997 Fall, pp. 13-17.
1998
3. To Slay the Dragon: St. George Complex in Nabokov’s Story “Spring in Fialta”. Russian Language Journal. East Lansing, MI (RLJ). 52:171-173, 1998 Winter-Spring-Fall, pp. 159-78.
4. Awl and Needle: Erofeev’s “Moskva-Petushki” and Pushkin’s “Zolotoi petushok”. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach. Vienna, Austria (WSlA). 42, 1998, 42, 175-87.
5. Tenishev Students Vladimir Nabokov, Osip Mandel'shtam and Samuil Rozov: Intersections. Russian Jewry Abroad: Articles, Publications, Memoirs and Essays. (Parkhomovsky, M., Ed.). Jerusalem, Israel. I (VI), 1998, pp. 141-62.
1999
6. A Pattern of Eternity: Pushkin and Nabokov as Artists. Pushkin and Nabokov. St. Petersburg, Russia. 1999, pp. 237-255.
7. Notes on Vladimir Nabokov’s Hundredth Anniversary. Our Scopus. Jerusalem. 17, 1999, pp. 4-6.
8. V. Nabokov in Jerusalem (The Journey That Never Happened). Jews and Slavs: Jerusalem in Slavic Culture. (Ed. by: Moskovich, etc.). Ljubljana: Scientific-Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1999, Vol. 6. pp. 373-387.
9. Nabokov Next Door. Jerusalem Review. Jerusalem, Israel. 1999, 2, 142-160.
10. The Mystery of Nabokov’s Literary Addressees: Gaito Gazdanov’s Case. Nabokov’s Review. St. Petersburg, Russia. 4, 1999, pp. 75-90.
11. Vladimir Nabokov and Sasha Chernyi. Literary Review. [Literaturnoe Obozrenie]. Russia. 1999, 1 (277), pp. 52-56.
12. Nabokov's Mary. The Explicator. Washington, DC (Expl). 1999 Fall, 58:1, 39-42.
13. Literary Subtexts of the Palestinian Letter of V. Nabokov. New Review (New York). 1999 March, 214, pp. 116-33.
14. Commentary [Stories from “Spring in Fialta”. Poems]. V. Nabokov. Russian period. Selected Works in 5 volumes. St. Petersburg: Simpozium, 1999, V. 2, pp. 717-745.
2000
15. On Transformations of Pushkin’s “Sculptural Myth” in Josef Brodsky’s Poetry. After Jubilee. (Ed. by: Schwarzband, S.; Timenchik, R.). Jerusalem: The Center for the Study of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the Hebrew University, 2000.
16. Commentary [Stories from “Spring in Fialta”. Stories from “The Eye”]. V. Nabokov. Russian period. Selected Works in 5 volumes. St. Petersburg: Simpozium, 2000, Vol. 3, pp. 779-826.
17. Commentary [Stories from “The Eye”]. V. Nabokov. Russian period. Selected Works in 5 volumes. St. Petersburg: Simpozium, 2000, Vol. 4, pp. 769-778.
18. Commentary [“The Enchanter”]. V. Nabokov. Russian period. Selected Works in 5 volumes. St. Petersburg: Simpozium, 2000, Vol. 5, pp. 652-658.
19. Department of Russian and Slavic Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: History of Creation. Moskovich-Wolf (ed.). Jews and Slavs: Jews and Eastern Slavs Essays on Intercultural Relations. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Institute of Jewish Studies; Jerusalem-Kyiv. Vol. 7., 2000, pp. 301-313.
20. “To Write Articles on Oblomov and Weather Conditions” (Vladimir Zhabotinsky and Izrail Rozov). The Solar Plexus, Moscow-Jerusalem. 14-15, 2000, pp. 245-251.
21. Six Notes to The Gift. The Nabokovian, Lawrence, KS. 45, 2000 Fall, pp. 36-41.
2001
22. V. Nabokov's Palestinian Letter of 1937. V. V. Nabokov: Pro et contra, Vol. 2 (2001), St. Petersburg: Russian Christian State Institute, pp. 12-33.
23. Rumble of Non-existence (V. Nabokov and F. Sologub). V. V. Nabokov: Pro et contra, Vol. 2 (2001), St. Petersburg, Russian Christian State Institute, pp. 499-519.
24. “In your books you continue to submerge yourself into icy depth”: An Unknown 1936 Letter of S. I. Rozov to V. V. Nabokov. The Other Shore: Russian Writers Abroad Past and Present, Toronto, Canada, Vol. 1 (2001), pp. 39-46. [Republication]. Co-authored with M. D. Shrayer.
25. The Railway Mythology of V. Nabokov. The Plexus, Moscow-Jerusalem. 18-19, 2001, pp. 231-240.
26. Vladimir Nabokov and Sasha Chernyi. Old Literary Review. [Staroe Literaturnoe Obozrenie]. Russia. 2001, 1 (277), pp. 52-56. [Republication].
27. An Unknown 1936 Letter of S.I. Rozov to V.V. Nabokov. The Plexus, Moscow-Jerusalem. 2001, 16-17, pp. 199-205. Co-authored with M. D. Shrayer.
28. Encounters with Nabokov (The Writer in his Swiss period)”. Windows (Literary journal), Tel-Aviv. 5, 2001, pp. 10-12.
29. Vladimir Nabokov’s Japan. Circle (The Nabokov Society Japan Newsletter), Japan. Vol. II (2), 2001, pp. 1-9. [In translation to Japanese]
2002
30. One Day in Life of Alexander Nikolaevich. From an Unpublished A. Benois’ Diary. Publication, introduction and commentary. New Literary Review [Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie], 58, 2002, Moscow, pp. 127-139.
31. The Notes of Latecomers. From the book “A Personal File”. The Plexus, Moscow-Jerusalem, 22-23, 2002, pp. 226-237.
32. Zina’s Dress: Made in…; The William Tell Complex in Literature; “Come serve the Muse and merge in verse...”; The Dead Can Dance; Some Reasons for Prof. Pnin to Hate Dr. Bogolepov. The Nabokovian, Lawrence, KS. 48, Spring 2002, pp. 8-14.
33. Five Notes on Nabokov’s Works // ZEMBLA: The on-line resource of the Arts & Humanities Library of The Pennsylvania State University Libraries. [Reprint of No. 32] See: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/leving1.htm
2003
34. In the House of Fools: The Songs of Innocence and Experience (E. Fanailova’s Poem on Afghanistan and Chechnya)”. New Literary Review [Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie], 62, Moscow. August, 2003, pp. 114-128.
35. Metaphysics of the Garage: Nabokov’s Automobile Aesthetics. Proceedings of the international Nabokov conference in St. Petersburg, Russia.
36. Nabokov Close By. Jewish Bookkeeper. 2, 2003, pp. 56-69.
37. The Everyday Petersburg in A. Benois’ 1917 Diary. The Image of St. Petersburg in World Culture. Ed. by V. Bagno. Petersburg: Nauka; Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House). 2003, pp. 551-565.
2004
38. An Incident at the Station (Babel, Sobol, Tsvetaeva and others). The Star [Zvezda], Saint Petersburg monthly literary journal, Russia. 7 (July). 2004, pp. 156-161.
39. Filming Nabokov: On Visual Poetics of the Text. Russian Studies in Literature, Summer 2004 (Vol 40, No. 3), pp. 6-31.
40. Love in the Automobile (Towards Urbanization of Intimate Spaces). Erotizm bez beregov [Eros in Russian Literature]. Volume of articles. Ed. by M. Pavlova. Moscow: NLO, 2004, pp. 242-254.
2005
41. Pro Captu Lectoris: M. L. Gasparov’s Department of Necessary Things [To Mikhail Gasparov on his 70th Birthday]. New Literary Review [Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie], Moscow, 73, 2005, pp. 155-162.
42. Roman Davidovich Timenchik. The Bibliography. Toronto Slavic Quarterly. No 14 (Fall 2005). University of Toronto Academic Electronic Journal in Slavic Studies.
43. Same in: Festschrift In Honor of Professor Roman Timenchik’s 60th Birthday. Ed. by Yuri Leving, Alexander Ospovat, and Yuri Tsivian. Moscow: Vodolei Publishers, 2005, pp. 547-565.
44. The Milk Formula (From the Commentaries to the Literary Menus). Festschrift In Honor of Professor Roman Timenchik’s 60th Birthday. Ed. by Yuri Leving, Alexander Ospovat, and Yuri Tsivian. Moscow: Vodolei Publishers, 2005, pp. 217-228.
45. Power and Candy. Y. Trifonov’s The House on the Embankment. New Literary Review [Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie], 75, pp. 258-290.
46. The Latent Eros and Heavenly Stalin: On the Two Anthologies of the Soviet Aviation Poetry. New Literary Review [Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie], 76, pp. 143-172.
2006
47. “Nabokov-7”: Russian Postmodernism in the Search of the National Identity. Empire N. Nabokov and his Heirs. Moscow, NLO, 2006, рр. 257-284.
48. Nabokov on a Securities Market. Empire N. Nabokov and his Heirs. Moscow, NLO, 2006, рр. 7-20. Co-authored with E. Soshkin.
49. Gips, Mramor, Kanon: reabilitatsia Nabokova. Empire N. Nabokov and his Heirs. Moscow, NLO, 2006, рр. 125-147..
50. “Akhmatova” of the Russian Emigration – Gisella Lachman. New Literary Review [Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie], 81, Moscow, pp. 164-173.
51. “Arcadia, an Unfortunate Land…” Preface to a book of poetry. Ehiel Fishzon. A Landscape on the Hero’s Background [Peizazh na fone geroia]. Moscow, Vodolei Publishers, 2006, pp. 5-8.
2007
52. Nabokov’s The Gift: The Problems of Textology and Commentary. The Real Life of Pierre Delalande. Studies in Russian and Comparative Literature to Honor Alexander Dolinin. Ed. by David M. Bethea, L. Fleishman, and A. Ospovat. Stanford, Stanford Slavic Studies. Vol. 34 (Part 2), pp. 607-651.
53. Decoding Delirium, or Who Will Help Chernyshevski? Nabokov Online Journal. 2007. Vol. I.
54. Half a Suit. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture. Spring (No. 3). Editor Dr. V. Steele, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (New York). Moscow: NLO, pp. 146-149.
55. Reshaping Heritage: Figures and Styles in Children's Literature, 1950-2000 (Four studies). Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture. Spring (No. 3). Editor Dr. V. Steele. The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (New York). Moscow: NLO, pp. 363-411.
56. Plaster, Marble, Canon: The Vindication of Nabokov. ULBANDUS, The Slavic Review of Columbia University. The Special Issue devoted to Vladimir Nabokov. No. 10, 2007, pp. 101-121.
57. Nabokov’s Evening of Poetry in New York. A Memoir by Roman Grinberg. The October. (Moscow). No. 7, pp. 185-190.
58. A History of the “Terrible Autograph” (Vladimir Jabotinsky i Andrei Sedykh) [Istoria odnogo ‘zhutkogo avtografa’ (Vladimir Jabotinsky i Andrei Sedykh)]. “Dom Kniazia Gagarina,” The Odessa Literary Museum, Vol. 4.
59. Forgotten Names of the Russian Emigration. Poetess Gisella Lachman. Russian Jews in America. Vol. II. Ed. by Ernst Zaltsberg. Toronto, 2007, pp. 96-114.
2008
60. A History of the “Terrible Autograph” (Vladimir Jabotinsky i Andrei Sedykh) [Istoria odnogo «zhutkogo avtografa» (Vladimir Jabotinsky i Andrei Sedykh)]. Lekhaim. Moscow-Jerusalem. March. Vol. 3. [Expanded version of No. 58 printed in the Ukrainian almanac]
61. “There Must Be Somebody There...” Winnie the Pooh and the New Animation Aesthetics. Veselye chelovechki: uzelki sovetskogo bessoznatel'nogo [Funny Little People: The Small Knots of the Soviet Unconscious]. Ed. by Mark Lipovetsky, et al. Moscow, New Literary Review, 2008, pp. 315-353.
62. Subtext, Palindrome, Metaphor, Joke, Quotation. "Natales grate numeras?" Festschrift in Honor of Professor George Levinton. Ed. by A. Ospovat, A. Baiburin, et al. St. Petersburg, The European University Publishing House, pp. 309-330.
2009
63. Whose is a Seal-Ring? Kliuev’s Subtexts in Mandelstam’s Poem “Give Tiutchev the Dragonfly.” Slavic and East European Journal, Winter 2009 (Vol. 53, No. 1), pp. 40-63.
64. Singing The Bells and The Covetous Knight: Nabokov and Rachmaninoff's Operatic Translations of Poe and Pushkin. Transitional Nabokov. Ed. by Duncan White and Will Norman. NY: Peter Lang Publishing Group, pp. 205-228.
65. Antipathy with History (The Nabokovs and Suvorins in Life and Prose). New Literary Review [Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie], Vol. 96, Moscow, pp. 154-190.
66. "Lost in Transit." An Interview with Alvin Toffler. NOJ / NOZh: Nabokov Online Journal. Vol. III.
2010
67. “Nabokov and Hemingway: The Fish That Got Away,” in Revising Nabokov Revising. Proceedings of the International Nabokov Conference in Kyoto, Japan, 24-27 March, 2010. Ed. by Tadashi Wakashima et al., pp. 137-144.
68. “Take Three (Nabokov and Eisenstein),” Ot slov k telu: Sbornik statei k 60-letiiu Iuriia Tsyviana. Ed. A. Lavrov, A. Ospovat, R. Timenchik. Moscow: NLO, 2010, pp. 145-161.
69. “Death and Patterns in The Gift (Five Notes),” The Nabokovian, Vol. 65, Fall 2010, pp. 12-28.
70. “Hide and Seek (On Possible Prototypes for the Artist Romanov in Nabokov’s The Gift),” Nabokov Online Journal, Vol. IV, 2010.
71. “The book is dazzlingly brilliant . . . But” Two early internal reviews of Nabokov’s The Gift,” The Goalkeeper: The Nabokov Almanac. Ed. Yuri Leving. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2010, pp. 251-260.
2011
72. Interpreting Voids: Vladimir Nabokov’s Last Incomplete Novel The Original of Laura. The Russian Review, April 2011, Volume 70 / Number 2, pp. 198-214.
73. Mr. Twister in the Land of Bolsheviks: Sketching Laughter in Marshak’s Poem. Slavic Review. Volume 70 / Number 2, Summer 2011, pp. 279-306.
74. The Debut of Nabokov’s novel The Gift [in Japanese translation, abstract by Juri Nagura] The Spring in Hongo. Ed. by M. Numano, et al. Tokyo: The University of Tokyo, 2011, pp. 109-112.
75. “Brodsky and Israel. Eight Footnotes to the Question You Have Always Wanted But Were Too Afraid to Ask,” in Russia and the West. Festschrift to Professor K. M. Azadovsky. Moscow: New Literary Review [Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie], 2011, pp. 248-275.
76. The version of the same article published on Openspace.ru as “The History of an Unrealized Event” [История одного несобытия]. (21/10/2011):
http://www.openspace.ru/literature/projects/20135/details/31231/
77. “Brodsky’s Paradoxes” [An introduction to the cluster of articles under Y. Leving’s editorship], New Literary Observer [Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie], No. 112, 2011, pp. 256-260.
78. “Joseph Brodsky and Andrei Tarkovsky: An Attempt at the Parallel Viewing” New Literary Observer [Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie], No. 112, 2011, pp. 273-287.
2012
79. “Eystein or Eisenstein? Tricking the Eye in Nabokov’s Pale Fire,” Nabokov Online Journal, Volume VI / 2012.
80. “Names,” in Anatomy of a Short Story. Nabokov’s Puzzles, Codes, “Signs and Symbols.” New York: Continuum, 2012, pp. 130-135.
81. “The Jewish Quest,” in Anatomy of a Short Story. Nabokov’s Puzzles, Codes, “Signs and Symbols.” New York: Continuum, 2012, pp. 165-168.
82. “The Castling Problem in ‘Signs and Symbols’,” in Anatomy of a Short Story. Nabokov’s Puzzles, Codes, “Signs and Symbols.” New York: Continuum, 2012, pp. 270-276.
83. “Nabokov’s Jewish Family,” Tablet magazine (December 17, 2012) <http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/119287/nabokov-jewish-family>
84. “The Top 10 Nabokov Short Stories,” Publisher’s Weekly (June 8, 2012).
< http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/52412-the-top-10-nabokov-short-stories.html >
85. “‘We will go on fighting.’ IN MEMORIAM Omry Ronen (1937-2012),” Toronto Slavic Quaterly, Vol. 42 (Fall 2012), pp. 308-313.
2013
86. “Selling Concubines: Who is the Face of the Russian Lolita?,” in Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl – Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel in Art and Design. New York: Print, F&W Media, 2013.
87. “Colorful Misunderstandings, Graphic Misinterpretations,” Co-authored with John Bertram [An Introductory article to] Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl – Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel in Art and Design. New York: Print, F&W Media, 2013.
2014
88. “The Big Bang”: From Creation to Creativity. The Hundredth Anniversary of the Tunguska Event. Proceedings of the cross-disciplinary conference in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. The Mikhail Prokhorov Fund. Ed. by S. Sazonov, et al. Moscow: New Literary Review. In print.
89. “Diver in Russian Poetry,” accepted for publication in Tynyanovskii sbornik, Vol. 14. Ed. by M. Chudakova and E. Toddes. Moscow, 2014.
90. “Nabokov in 3D: Teaching UpsiDe Down and Digital” (TBA).
Review Articles (1998 – 2012)
91. “The Jewish Journal” (Munich, 1991-1993). Jerusalem Russian-Jewish Herald. Jerusalem: Russian Jewry Abroad Academic Center, Vol. II (March) 1998, p. 19-21.
92. Mir rasskazov Nabokova. Maxum D. Shrayer. The World of Nabokov Stories. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1999. Literaturnoe obozrenie, 4, 1999. Moscow, pp. 91-92.
93. [Review of Aleksei German’s movie “Khrustalev, my car!”]. “Skvoz’ magicheskii khrustal’.” Vesti – Jerusalem, 1999, July 29, p. 7.
94. “Ocherki o russkoi emigratsii.” Cahiers de l’émgration russe: Evrei Rossii – immigranty Frantsii. Editors, Moskovich, V.; Khazan, V.; Breiar, S. Moscow – Paris – Jerusalem: Gesharim, 2000, 416 pp. Windows, 2’2001, p. 27.
95. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach. Gesellschaft zur Förderung Slawistischer Studien (Wien). Band 48. 2001. 270 pp. Slavic and East European Journal, Winter 2003 (Vol. 47, No. 4), pp. 698-699.
96. Joseph G. Kickasola. The Films of Krzysztof Kieślowski: The Liminal Image. New York: Continuum, 2004. 332 pp. Slavic and East European Journal, Summer 2005 (Vol. 49, No. 2), pp. 329-330.
97. The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov. Ed. by Julian W. Connolly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 262 pp. Russian Review, Vol. 65, Number 4 – Winter 2006, pp. 855-856.
98. Michael Urban and Andrei Evdokimov. Russia Gets the Blues: Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. 200 pp. Slavic and East European Journal, Summer 2007.
99. Review of Evgeny Dobrenko and Marina Balina, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). Canadian Slavonic Papers [Revue canadienne des slavistes]. An Interdisciplinary Journal devoted to Central and Eastern Europe. Volume 53 (Nos. 2-3-4) June-Sept.-Dec. 2011, pp. 644-645.
100. Donald Johnson. Worlds in Regression, the new edition and translation into Russian [Дональд Джонсон. Миры и антимиры Владимира Набокова], Openspace.ru (22/08/2011)
<http://www.openspace.ru/literature/events/details/24245/>
101. Review of Thomas Karshan, V. Nabokov and the Art of Play (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). Slavic Review, vol. 71, no. 4 (Winter 2012), pp. 974-975.
Essays
102. “Body and Motifs of Detachment of Flesh in Russian Literature.” Our Scopus. Jerusalem. Vol. 16, 1999, pp. 11-14.
103. “The Kazakh Bomb” [Казахская бомба]. About the meetings of Joyce, Proust, Dickens, and Dostoevsky that Never Happened. Openspace.ru (17/11/2011)
http://www.openspace.ru/literature/projects/20135/details/31905/
Interviews
104. An Interview with the poet Anatoly Naiman. Our Scopus. Jerusalem. Vol. 15, 1998, pp. 7-9; Vol. 1999, 16, pp. 8-10.
105. An Interview with the poet Evgenii Rein. Our Scopus. Jerusalem. Vol. 17, 1999, pp. 7-9.
106. “Translation Is a Bastard Form”. An Interview with Michael Scammell. Nabokov Online Journal. 2007. Vol. I.