Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Culture
‘This Chain’ album by George Mann celebrates the radical minstrel tradition
January 24, 2024George is one Mann on a mission—to remind his listeners of the rich vein of human solidarity that runs through our musical songbook, and to which he belongs.
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Culture
‘Hippie Faggot Freak’: Memoir of a pathetic youth and emerging gay liberation
January 22, 2024Dale Mitchell’s lengthy account of his first 21 years is intermittently rewarding, but it is a slog demanding much patience.
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Culture
Remembering and reviewing pioneering gay literary editor Michael Denneny
January 18, 2024Sadly, this book review is also an obituary and a memoir.
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Culture
Online: Tobias Picker’s opera about ‘the Danish girl’ trans patient Lili Elbe
December 19, 2023Moviegoers back in 2015 who saw the film The Danish Girl may have first heard the story there of Lili Elbe, the first known recipient of gender-affirming surgery in the early 1930s, then uncharted, experimental medical...
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Opinion
A lesson in applied psychology that can defeat MAGA fascism in 2024
December 14, 2023With a contract and a work plan we stick to, MAGA fascism can be defeated.
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Culture
‘Maestro,’ the new biopic on Leonard Bernstein, reveals as much as conceals
December 13, 2023For what it covers, as a non-linear human interest story that happens to involve some very well-known people, Maestro is magisterial and wonderful.
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Culture
English language world stage premiere of ‘Insulted. Belarus’: Agitprop in Santa Monica
December 12, 2023Could there be a economy where the collectivity of the people own the principal industries of the land yet where political and civic life is democratic in practice as well as in theory?
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Culture
‘The Climb’ dramatizes trauma, adaptation, and hope for the blind
December 7, 2023“The failure is not trying,” the performers state, as one of a number of memorable mottos. “Never lose sight of who you are.”
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