While reading about you, I noticed that some people describe you as Egyptian American, others call you Italian American, and some introduce you as Jewish American. “The irrealist dimension is where I am” - Andre Aciman One of the identities you’ve discovered is Homo Irrealis, also the title of your new book. They say things like: “I can’t come over …
"They taught us at Barnard about that word—utopia. André Aciman’s new book of essays, Homo Irrealis, out from Faber & Faber this month, is all about longing for the good place, mostly imagined, sometimes real. From meditations on a poem he repeatedly encounters in the New York subway system to Freud’s psychological resistance to visiting the city of Rome because …
