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Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick is author, most recently, of Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time.

Articles

Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers was a mutually demanding collaboration.

Vivian Gornick

What makes biography good?

Vivian Gornick

Phyllis Schlafly, Trump, and the terror of difference.

Vivian Gornick

Every day we transgress against our own longing to act well.

Vivian Gornick

Should feminism join with other causes, or make its own path?

Vivian Gornick

When narcissism was pathologized, reformers were labeled as narcissists and discontent swept under the rug. George Scialabba responds.

Vivian Gornick

The cause of Camus's native countrymen moved him, yet he yearned helplessly toward the European culture that had formed him.

Vivian Gornick

The Lives of Erich Fromm.

Vivian Gornick

An interview with Vivian Gornick about the mother of anarchism.

Vivian Gornick, David V. Johnson

Alfred Kazin’s raw materials.

Vivian Gornick

David Grossman’s article of faith.

Vivian Gornick

The “happily ever after” of marriage ruined the Tolstoys.

Vivian Gornick

Forum Responses

In the ’70s, feminists felt bereft even of support from those on the radical left.
Vivian Gornick

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