Jill Ciment was 17 in 1970 when she got involved with the 47-year-old teacher who would become her husband. Now widowed, she reconsiders the relationship — and its "poisonous" beginnings.

In her probing new memoir, “Consent,” the novelist Jill Ciment is right to wonder whether the painter Arnold Mesches, who died in 2016 at 93, was her husband or her teacher. When they met ...

Jill Ciment’s 1996 memoir “Half a Life” described her teenage affair with the man she eventually married. Her new memoir, “Consent,” dramatically revises some details. By Alexandra Alter ...

Jill Ciment met her husband in the 1970s when she was a teenager and he was almost 50. At the time of their first kiss, he was a married father of two; she was his art student.