PositiveThe Millions\"The project is one of recognition and revelation within the reader: the book wants nothing less than the dissolution of your consciousness into its pixellated moments of psychological precision ... the third section, \'Manfred,\' grows a little tedious. Unlike Aciman’s steamy first novel Call Me by Your Name, most of the skin-to-skin contact in Enigma Variations occurs in the narrator’s head, and in \'Manfred,\' Paul wallows longwindedly in the agony of delayed avowal ... Intriguingly, as we witness Paul repeatedly rearrange his life around a new magnetic north, it becomes clear that his bisexuality abets his serial monogamy ... Aciman has captured Paul’s bridge life delightfully well.\