From that same issue of Atlantic Monthly, btw (and with only the merest incidental reference to anything in my column today), a piece by Christopher Hitchens commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication of Lolita.

Hitch notes that Ms. Haze herself would be 70 this year. There’s a thought.

I suppose I shall shed a few more NRO readers for saying so, but I agree with Dorothy Parker that Lolita is a very beautiful book, a masterpiece, its subject matter notwithstanding. The 1962 movie, though a less than great movie, is worth watching just for James Mason, who was ALWAYS worth watching — I would have bought tickets to go & watch him pick his teeth — and Peter Sellers in his creepiest role ever.