The true story behind ‘Call Me By Your Name’ is a profoundly Jewish one
Andre Aciman's new memoir explores life in a constant diaspora
Memoir
The Latest
-
Books -
Yiddish World A horror show at her grandparents’ house
A Jewish woman recalls what happened during a sleepover with older relatives during her childhood
-
Culture ‘I’d tell myself I could absorb into white America’: Probing assimilation and the Holocaust, in a graphic memoir
‘Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz’ is a funny and harrowing account of Shoah survivors and their descendants
-
Looking Forward Don’t let your kids read this column (but don’t ban it either)
"This is a criticism that I very much enjoy,” said comedian and author Moshe Kasher upon hearing his memoir was banned in a Texas school district.
-
Books She longed to be a lover and an outlaw; she became a writer instead
Francine Prose's memoir '1974' is a portrait of a relatively brief encounter and an entire generation
-
Culture How a ‘lowly Orthodox,’ punk rock lesbian ended up in Hasidic Crown Heights
Rossi’s memoir ‘Punk Rock Queen of the Jews’ tells a story ripe for Passover
-
Books How Barbra Streisand’s interior design manifesto inspired an unlikely hit play
Over a decade before publishing her first memoir, the movie star made her authorial debut with a coffee table tome detailing her sometimes questionable, always ostentatious taste in home decor
-
Books Surviving the Holocaust, only to endure the brutality of life under Stalin
In 'Two Roads Home,' Daniel Finkelstein urges the reader to remember both Nazi and Soviet crimes against humanity
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward Coldplay welcomed Israeli fans onstage ‘as equal humans.’ Why are some Jewish people mad?
- 2
Fast Forward Trump lawyer who praised ‘Mein Kampf’ is now accusing Harvard of antisemitism, report says
- 3
Opinion In the rush to vilify Israel, genocide scholars ignored the truth
- 4
Sports Forget being caught on camera at a Coldplay concert — I was caught on Shabbat at Yankee Stadium
In Case You Missed It
-
News A new kaffiyeh policy is designed to help divided Jews pray together. Is this the Jewish future?
-
Fast Forward Sen. Gillibrand: ‘Globalize the intifada’ means ‘destroy Jews’ and ‘end Israel’
-
Fast Forward Gael Garcia Bernal, Ilana Glazer, Ayo Edebiri among Hollywood A-listers pledging to boycott Israeli film institutions
-
Fast Forward Will Jack Schlossberg’s Jewish roots help him in bid for Nadler’s seat?
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
