Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Culture
Fernando Botero at 90: Works featured at the Museum of Latin American Art
January 6, 2023Also, 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, 2023Viewers 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, 2023These 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, 2022The 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, 2022The “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, 2022Bettina 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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Politics
What happened with the midterm propositions and measures in California?
November 22, 2022Generally, the state’s left-liberal-progressive reputation held up.
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Culture
‘If I Forget’: The Holocaust, Zionism and the uses of historical memory
November 22, 2022It has been proclaimed to be “one of the greatest Jewish plays of this century.”
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