Think, Write, Speak gathers previously uncollected nonfiction by Nabokov, spanning essays, book reviews, interviews, lectures, and letters to newspaper editors written across several decades.

The volume captures Nabokov in his most direct, argumentative, and occasionally polemical mode, addressing literature, politics, censorship, translation, education, and contemporary culture. Many pieces respond to specific public controversies, revealing his sharp rhetorical instincts and impatience with intellectual carelessness.