Maar Kudos

Michael Maar's Speak, Nabokov has been getting favorable press:

Maar is a literary sleuth, his method a Holmesian combination of instinct, some intellectual delegation and close reading...

(The rest of the blurb at the publisher's, Verso.)

Michael Maar interview

The BBC interviews Michael Maar in anticipation of the author's Speak, Nabokov (Maar's previous Nabokov outing, The Two Lolitas, was thorough and balanced (and introduced the concept of cryptomnesia into the mainstream), so looking forward to this thing too):

The author of a new study of Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction, Michael Maar, explains how the often tumultuous events of the writer’s life, including the death of his younger brother in a concentration camp, imprinted themselves on his work in surprising ways.

(Description & link via Verso.)