Eric A. Gordon

Eric A. Gordon is the author of a biography of radical American composer Marc Blitzstein, co-author of composer Earl Robinson’s autobiography, and the translator of a memoir by Brazilian author Hadasa Cytrynowicz. He has received numerous awards for his People's World writing from the International Labor Communications Association. His latest project is translating the nine books of fiction by Manuel Tiago (pseudonym for Álvaro Cunhal) from Portuguese, the first volumes available from International Publishers NY.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon

Culture

‘Let It Be Morning,’ a stunningly powerful almost all-Palestinian Israeli film
February 2, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
Let Let It Be Morning serve as yet another warning, a lovingly crafted, humanly noble alarum, of the Armageddon to come.
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Culture

‘Hercules on the Thermodon’: Antonio Vivaldi’s baroque battle of the sexes
January 12, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
Perhaps the opera is meant to disarm the most polarized tendencies between men and women in a highly stratified society that gave women little power.
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Culture

Fernando Botero at 90: Works featured at the Museum of Latin American Art
January 6, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
Also, don’t miss the work of up-and-coming artist Narsiso Martinez.
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Culture

‘Turn Every Page’: A loving documentary about ideas, writing and comradeship
January 5, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
Viewers will be well rewarded by this film whose appeal extends far beyond the literary types.
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Books

Book review and response: ‘People Love Dead Jews’
January 4, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
These essays touching on the overall theme—“reports,” with a more corroborated affidavit —were mostly published in other venues before coming together as a book of 12 fascinating, elegantly argued chapters.
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Culture

Immerse yourself in the Chinese Cultural Revolution at the Wende Museum
December 14, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
The Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–76) was a period of tremendous social and economic upheaval within China itself that also had deep global reverberations.
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Culture

¡Viva Maestro!: Conductor Gustavo Dudamel and his roots in Venezuela’s ‘El Sistema’
December 8, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
The “maestro” of its title surely belongs to Dudamel, but the dynamic Venezuelan had been inspired since childhood by his own maestro, José Antonio Abreu, 1975 founder of ‘El Sistema.’
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Culture

Despite the ban, queers made important contributions to U.S. Communist movement
December 1, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
Bettina Aptheker knows whereof she speaks. The daughter of Party leader Herbert Aptheker, and a 17-year member of the Party herself, she adopts the “new journalism” approach to history.
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