Diary

Julian Evans

In Nabokov’s witty and disarming ‘Ballad of Longwood Glen’, published in the New Yorker in 1957, shy, dreamy Art Longwood climbs a tree on a family picnic to retrieve his son’s ball — and carries on climbing:

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[*] Fourth Estate, 139 pp., £9.99, 17 April, 1 85702 779 5.