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

‘Everybody,’ a modern-day morality play about death, says much about life
September 20, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
Everybody is informed they will have to make a “presentation,” a sort of defense or account of their life. They’ll be asked to answer, “Why did you have to live?” How, and why, will you be...
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En español

Rudy Salas se enfrenta al republicano David Valadao en el CD 22 de California
August 26, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
¿Está este distrito en el Valle de San Joaquín (o Central), incluidas partes de los condados de Kern, Kings y Tulare, listo para un cambio?
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Politics

Rudy Salas battles Republican David Valadao in California’s CD 22
August 25, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
It’s another one of the races in California that are key to maintaining Democratic control of the Congress.
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Politics

Will Rollins flip California’s newly redistricted CD 41?
August 16, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
Republican Ken Calvert, 69, the incumbent U.S. Representative from the former 42nd District, is running for reelection to his 16th term in the newly reconfigured Congressional District 41.
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En español

‘Otra America’ de Barbara Kingsolver: Poemas en una edición bilingüe actualizada
August 11, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
Aquellos que leen español encontrarán este libro igualmente significativo, el reflejo de esta otra América que Kingsolver comparte con nosotros. Los poemas están publicados, útilmente, en páginas enfrentadas en inglés y español.
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Culture

‘Lavender Men’: A theatrical fantasia on the (likely) gayness of Abraham Lincoln
August 10, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
Has America already had its first (and second) gay president?
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Culture

Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Another America’: Poems in an updated bilingual edition
August 4, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
“I came to the Southwest expecting cactus, wide open spaces, and adventure. I found, instead, another whole America."
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Arts

‘Start from the heart’: Black photographer Adger Cowans, life and times
August 2, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon
Given the Jim Crow era in which Cowans grew up and matured, “I took all that racism and rejection and everything,” he said, “and I put it in my work."
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