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

Online: Tobias Picker’s opera about ‘the Danish girl’ trans patient Lili Elbe
December 19, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
Moviegoers 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, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
With 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, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
For 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, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
Could 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 By Eric A. Gordon
“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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Culture

Old haunts and new museums in New Orleans: WWII, Jewish, Brecht
December 6, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
I wonder if, without first-hand memories from wartime family members, future generations will see this history, and this museum, in such a benevolent light.
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Culture

‘The Talented Tenth’ explores African-American success—and its high price
November 29, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
The Talented Tenth tackles many issues, not the least of them the unspoken conflicts holding over from the old Howard days about racial hue, national identity, and what was known then as “Negritude.”
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Culture

West Coast premiere of ‘Freight’ starring J. Alphonse Nicholson is must-see theater
November 28, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
Is a Christ-like vow of poverty truly the answer to the Black dilemma in America—or space travel to Saturn?
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