BOOKS Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
AT 84, New York grande dame Vivian Gornick is having a significant renaissance after a lifetime of filing first-rate copy. In 2020 a new collection of essays, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Rereader, was published, alongside two of her earlier books, 1977’s The Romance of American Communism and Approaching Eye Level, journalistic pieces from 1996. Now Verso is publishing Taking a Long Look, a selection of her essays written over four decades. Too often it takes a while for a woman to get noticed. New York painter Pat Steir, a Gornick contemporary, has spoken of the phenomenon of fe...
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