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What We Want Is to Start a Revolution
Formed in 1912 for “women who did things—and did them openly,” the Heterodoxy Club laid the groundwork for a century of American feminism.
by
Vivian Gornick
via
New York Review of Books
on
July 28, 2022
What Endures of the Romance of American Communism
Many of the Communists who felt destined for a life of radicalism experienced their lives as irradiated by a kind of expressiveness that made them feel centered.
by
Vivian Gornick
via
New York Review of Books
on
April 3, 2020
Little House, Small Government
How Laura Ingalls Wilder’s frontier vision of freedom and survival lives on in Trump’s America.
by
Vivian Gornick
via
The New Republic
on
November 16, 2017
When the World Became a Huge Penitentiary
An eloquent portrait of underground life among the undocumented and the damned of the earth.
by
Emma Goldman
,
Vivian Gornick
via
The Nation
on
March 23, 2015
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Bad Romance
The afterlife of Vivian Gornick's "The Romance of American Communism" shows that we bear the weight of dead generations—and sometimes living ones, too.
by
Alyssa Battistoni
via
Dissent
on
April 13, 2020
The Inner Life of American Communism
Vivian Gornick’s and Jodi Dean’s books mine a lost history of comradeship, determination, and intimacy.
by
Corey Robin
via
The Nation
on
May 5, 2020
Cameras for Class Struggle
How the radical documentarians of the Workers' Film and Photo League put their art in the service of social movements.
by
Max Pearl
via
Art In America
on
April 21, 2021
The Tyranny of the Minority, from Iowa Caucus to Electoral College
The problem of minority rule isn’t Trumpian or temporary; it’s bipartisan and enduring.
by
Corey Robin
via
New York Review of Books
on
February 21, 2020
