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Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

THE LOUNGE | TURN OF THE PAGE Vladimir Nabokov may be known for Lolita, but Ankit Srivastava believes the writer’s Pale Fire is a better piece: a rare masterpiece that satiates the literary palate and also greases the intellectual gears.

Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary

THE LOUNGE | TURN OF THE PAGE In his review of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Ankit Srivastava professes his admiration for how Flaubert has dealt with a seemingly boring subject of life in rural France with excellence – and most importantly, without judgment on the protagonist’s attempts to make her dreary life more interesting.