Eric A. Gordon

Eric A. Gordon, People’s World Cultural Editor, wrote a biography of radical American composer Marc Blitzstein and co-authored composer Earl Robinson’s autobiography. He has received numerous awards for his People's World writing from the International Labor Communications Association. He has translated all nine books of fiction by Manuel Tiago (pseudonym for Álvaro Cunhal) from Portuguese, available from International Publishers NY.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon

Culture

‘Just Like Us’ centers four Latina girls, their immigration status, and chronicler
April 24, 2025 By Eric A. Gordon
As the play unfolds, we witness the specifics of the immigration dilemma for these four girls.
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Culture

‘George’: Soprano Sonia Yoncheva’s first recital album celebrates the life of George Sand
April 17, 2025 By Eric A. Gordon
The singer uses her voice and melodies to bring to life France’s most eminent 19th-century feminist.
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Culture

Moyshe Kulbak’s ‘The Zelmenyaners’: A Yiddish novel about the early Revolutionary Soviet years
March 31, 2025 By Eric A. Gordon
Moyshe Kulbak’s The Zelmenyaners first appeared in English translation in 2013, but it escaped my attention. It has now appeared in a new edition from White Goat Press, an imprint of the Yiddish Book Center in...
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Culture

‘Beatnik Girl’ offers the woman’s point of view on the Beat Generation
March 25, 2025 By Eric A. Gordon
Anyone interested in this period should check out this play.
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Culture

A stunning exhibition of women’s art on view in La Paz, Bolivia
March 17, 2025 By Eric A. Gordon
The museum is the main repository for Bolivia’s artistic heritage, with many paintings and artifacts from the pre-Columbian, the colonial period, and the time (200 years in 2025) of Bolivia’s national independence.
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Opinion

Venezuela’s Ambassador to Bolivia in a Q&A with a North American delegation
March 13, 2025 By Eric A. Gordon
This cannot be considered a definitive statement of the views of the Venezuelan government, but for its news value, we hope readers will find this collective interview timely and informative.
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Culture

Little Tokyo hosts world premiere of opera ‘The Camp’ about Japanese-American internment
March 13, 2025 By Eric A. Gordon
Little Tokyo’s JACCC Aratani Theatre hosted the world premiere of a new opera, in English, about a Japanese-American family wrongfully placed in a concentration camp in 1942.
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Environment

Some brief notes about coca in Bolivia
March 11, 2025 By Eric A. Gordon
A North American traveling to some parts of South America—Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, for example—is intrigued by these lands as the locus for a major source of drugs in the United States, cocaine in particular.
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