Brian Boyd

Brian Boyd is the author of Stalking Nabokov: Selected Essays and On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction.

Vladimir Nabokov's understanding of human nature anticipated the advances in psychology since his day

The proponents of Theory and Cultural Critique could learn a thing or two from bioculture

Why his unfinished novel, Laura, deserved to be published; what’s left in the voluminous archive of his unpublished work

Evolution does not rob life of meaning, but creates meaning. It also makes possible our own capacity for creativity.

The delight we get from detecting patterns in books, and in life, can be measured and understood