MARK TURNER wallows in the virtuosity of Swansea Jazz Festival openers, Simon Spillett and Pete Long
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Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
Acute observations on women’s experience from a veteran radical
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TOM PIERSCIONEK recommends a remarkable series of interviews with those few and brave Israeli citizens who refuse to do military service
AT 84, New York grande dame Vivian Gornick is having a significant renaissance after a lifetime of filing first-rate copy.
In 2020 a new collection of essays, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Rereader, was published, alongside two of her earlier books, 1977’s The Romance of American Communism and Approaching Eye Level, journalistic pieces from 1996.
Now Verso is publishing Taking a Long Look, a selection of her essays written over four decades.
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