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André Aciman on Eric Rohmer’s Elizabeth

my version of elizabeth was written by a man named Gilbert Cordier and published by Gallimard in 1946. This novel did not take off much and eventually disappeared from circulation. Sixty years later Gallimard reissued it under an altered title. La maison d’élisabeth. Now, almost eighty years after its initial publication in France, it has

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Literary Center » “Don’t let anyone tell you that.” Elizabeth Stordur Pryor on finding confidence in her blackness

“Richard, she can’t stop looking at you,” my mother said with a big silly smile. Article continues after ad After only three months, my father came back into my life. And it was all because of the N-word. “I can’t stop looking at her either,” he said. My face became warm with happiness. I pressed

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