Third Culturist Boyd nets Nabokov

Brian Boyd-edited Nabokov’s Butterflies, an exploration of Nabokov’s obsession with butterflies that posits Nabokov’s scientific pursuit of lepidoptry as a way of understanding the author more completely, hailed as third  culture exemplar in Weekend Australian’s ‘science reads’ review. “Miscellany with a pleasing sense of mania about it … one of those rare books that combines great charm and extraordinary substance, and that transforms our appreciation of the author and all his work.” Author John Fowles in The Spectator found that “the book quivers with life like a recently caught butterfly itself.” (19 – 2 July 23)