STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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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
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
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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