Aciman is a master of emotion dissected by well-dressed, well-read people; the rhythm of his prose is sensuous but the words ...

Special to Charleston City Paper | As slow, sultry tides roll through the Lowcountry this June, so will a literary voice attuned to the rhythms of memory and longing. Charleston readers will soon have ...

Elliot Mintz was one of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's most trusted friends. In this heartfelt memoir, the former radio and TV host looks back on his relationship with the famed couple, as well as the ...

If you’ve been jonesing for new work by essayist, novelist, and scholar André Aciman — his glittering novel “Call Me by Your Name” became an Academy Award-winning film — take heart. A new memoir is ...

“Call Me by Your Name” is a 2007 novel by André Aciman that serves as an intimate portrayal of first love, sexual awakening and coming-of-age. Set in Italy in the summer of 1983, the story follows the ...

1. The diaspora of André Aciman’s Sephardic Jewish family was not atypical: Escaping Spain in the 16th century, they landed in Italy, moved on to Constantinople, then finally, in 1905, to Egypt. “Out ...