Vivian Gornick is author, most recently, of Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time.
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Vivian Gornick is author, most recently, of Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time.
Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers was a mutually demanding collaboration.
When narcissism was pathologized, reformers were labeled as narcissists and discontent swept under the rug. George Scialabba responds.
The cause of Camus's native countrymen moved him, yet he yearned helplessly toward the European culture that had formed him.
An interview with Vivian Gornick about the mother of anarchism.
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