.jpg?fit=crop&w=220&h=132&auto=format)
92NY’s Goldman Center for Children and Family provides an exceptional array of programs designed to support children at every stage of their development.
Oct 09, 2025
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov’s masterpiece, has been shocking and beguiling readers for 70 years. Join us as a group of acclaimed writers — Jiayang Fan, Julia May Jonas, and Sarah Weinman — gather for a celebratory reading and conversation about Nabokov’s greatest and most controversial novel.
Exhilarating, heartbreaking, disturbing, and mordantly hilarious, Lolita tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert’s romantic obsession with a 12-year-old girl — an unsettling reflection on love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation. But Lolita has always been more than a provocation. It is the story of postwar America in a state of cheerful barbarism, one that remains profoundly relevant to our time.
Don’t miss this gathering of Nabokov experts and writers whose own novels offer profound meditations on power and sex as they reflect on Lolita’s legacy, why it continues to shock us, the startling force of Nabokov’s incantatory prose, and what keeps us under Lolita’s spell.
© 2026 The Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association
All Rights Reserved.
All material accessed via the 92NY website (“content”) is protected by copyright under U.S. Copyright laws and is the property of The Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association or the party credited as the provider of the content. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, display, perform, modify, create derivative works, transmit, or in any way exploit any such content, nor may you distribute any part of this content over any network, including a local area network, sell or offer it for sale, or use such content to construct any kind of database. You may not alter or remove any copyright or other notice from copies of the content accessed via 92NY’s website. Copying or storing any content except as provided above is expressly prohibited without prior written permission of 92NY or the copyright holder identified in the individual content’s copyright notice.
If you are a rights holder and have found your material on our website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), please contact us so that we may obtain and document accurate rights-related information. Upon email request to archive@92ny.org, we will temporarily remove material from public view while we address any rights issue and will honor takedown requests from authors who do not wish to have their work published.
