Cotugno, Marianne. "We’re Just Putting It in Our Files": Lolita at the Cincinnati Public Library. 2019

The article looks at what Brian Boyd called one of the "few flickers of outrage" about Lolita after its American publication by Putnam in 1958 when the Cincinnati Public Library "banned" the book from its shelves. The Lolita controversy throws into relief the complex history of obscenity legislation on a local, state, and national level and illustrates that Nabokov's concerns prior to his novel's American publication were well-founded.