Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick's new book, The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton, will be published in the fall by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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2007

  • Letters

    May 9, 2007

  • Before the Law

    February 15, 2007

    Isaac B. Singer: A Life fails to fully illustrate the complexity of the writer's struggle with his heritage.

2005

  • The Scrivener and the Whale

    November 16, 2005

    Andrew Delbanco's new biography of Herman Melville reveals that the great writer came to realize that what torments men is not the longing to believe that there is meaning in the universe, but that behind the longing lies fear of nothingness.

  • Hail Mary

    May 26, 2005 Subscribe

    A new biography of one of the Enlightment's most remarkable thinkers.

  • About a Boy

    April 7, 2005 Subscribe

    Jonathan Safran Foer, wunderkind.

2004

2003

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