The lady’s not for burning

To toast or not to toast?

Dmitri Nabokov has finally decided to let the literary world off the hook. For years he’s been of two minds about whether to obey his father’s instructions and consign the manuscript of his last novel, The Original of Laura, to the flames. At last the decision: He won’t burn the thing. Instead, we’ll finally get to read Vladimir Nabokov’s final work.