Did J.K. Rowling Fail the Lolita Test?
Sue Lyon as Lolita in a publicity still for the 1962 Stanley Kubrick movie. (Photo by Screen Archives/Getty Images)
The functionally illiterate youth are canceling her for praising the classic novel.
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Gird your loins, ladies and gents: we are doing Lolita discourse again. Vladimir Nabokov’s most famous novel, featuring the memoirs of an unrep…
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