Eric A. Gordon

Eric A. Gordon, retired 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

Edward Said has said his last word—on opera
May 12, 2025 By Eric A. Gordon
Edward W. Said (1935–2003) was an astute scholar of music and a classically trained pianist whose publications include Musical Elaborations and Music at the Limits.
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Culture

Homoerotica on trial: An 1890s photographer and his negatives in fascist Italy
May 9, 2025 By Eric A. Gordon
This play is a part of a celebration of plays and lectures in Los Angeles aimed at raising awareness about the rise of fascism, racism, and antisemitism, and the power of art and design to resist...
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Culture

‘The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon’ explores violations against journalists
May 8, 2025 By Eric A. Gordon
The play exposes the lengths to which oppressive, oligarchic regimes will go to suppress the truth and preserve the ruling-class prerogative.
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Culture

‘The Last Play by Rickérby Hinds’: A Black Honduran immigrant tells his story
April 30, 2025 By Eric A. Gordon
What emerges is a moving memoir of a young Afro-Latino immigrant who finds a home straddling the many communities he encounters in America.
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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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