Boris Kachka's six favorite books

Boris Kachka is a contributing editor for New York magazine, where he has written and edited pieces on literature, publishing, and theater for more than a decade. His new book is Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

One of his six favorite books, as told to The Week magazine:Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov