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

Books

‘Agent Sonya,’ a biography of intrepid antifa spy Ursula Kuczynski
February 16, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
For a couple of decades in the 1930s and 1940s, she was among the USSR’s most important windows to the outside world.
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Culture

Homage to Michael: My (East) German friend of half a century
January 15, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon

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Opinion

Thanks to Trump, ‘death panels’ arrive in the City of Angels
January 6, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
Whatever you do, don’t have a heart attack or stroke in L.A.
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Culture

‘Speaker for the God’: Historical fiction about Jeremiah illuminates enduring social issues
December 14, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon
Jeremiah, like other biblical prophets, was a spokesperson for the poor and powerless. He also warned the ruling class of his day to take the Babylonian threat seriously.
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News

U.S.A. is Number One as COVID-19 deaths pass quarter million
November 18, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon
Death mounts and the economy spirals, but the HEROES Act lies like a corpse on Mitch McConnell's desk.
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Culture

‘Accused’: Finnish composer tackles political interrogations from France, GDR and USA
November 18, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon
Living in a firmly established social democracy, Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg probably doesn’t hear very often about political interrogations in his own country, but the subject obviously interests him.
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Politics

The 2020 vote in California spelled qualified advancement—and some retreats
November 10, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon
Californians made gains on some of the ballot measures but lost on others.
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Culture

George Mann’s new CD, ‘The Coronavirus Sessions,’ pure joy in the struggle
November 2, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon
There’s something quite special about his latest CD, made under grueling conditions between March and August of 2020, one of our country’s roughest patches, and there have been a few.
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