Stendhal on MacDougal Street by Andre Albert Aciman Dissemble your feelings, the French novelist advised; one lover takes it to heart.
The First Man by Albert Camus by Andre Albert Aciman On October 16, 1957, Albert Camus was sitting in a restaurant in Paris.
Alexandria on My Mind by Andre Albert Aciman People in the street in Alexandria called her al-tarsha, the deaf woman.
Soldier, Salesman, Swindler, Spy by Andre Albert Aciman “So, Are we or aren't we?” boasted my great-uncle Vili. “Siamo o non siamo?”
Was Spinoza a Heretic? by Andre Albert Aciman Benedict De Spinoza (1632-77), the frail, frugal, reclusive lens-grinder, may have been the most passionately dispassionate thinker in the history…
Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Albert Aciman It happened that my great aunt Elsa had had strange forebodings the week before we lost everything in Egypt.
Gardens and Ghettos by Andre Albert Aciman The fluctuation between extremes is what gives Italian Jewish history its volatile and contradictory character, and that complex, elusive character…
The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi, translated and edited by Mark R. Cohen by Andre Albert Aciman In 1571, at the age of thirty-eight, Michel de Montaigne made what must have appeared to his French contemporaries a…