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‘Lolita,’ Jeffrey Epstein, and the Real Meaning of a Challenging Classic
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How a novel about a pedophile-rapist came to occupy such a prominent place in American life.

One particular novel is all over the Epstein files: Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. Reportedly, this was the one and only book Jeffrey Epstein kept at his bedside table. He owned a first edition. It pops up in emails and in photos, released by the House Oversight Committee, that show young women with quotes from the book written on their bodies.

Lolita is abo…

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