-
Autobiography and MemoirFebruary 20, 2023
Janet Malcolm, Reluctant Memoirist
Why was one of the most gifted nonfiction writers of her generation so uncomfortable writing about herself?
Vivian Gornick
-
FeminismDecember 16, 2019
The Radical Life and Times of Crystal Eastman
A new biography reveals how the feminist, pacifist, labor activist, and socialist fused the best strains of American leftism into one.
Vivian Gornick
-
BiographyJune 1, 2017
Diana Trilling’s Discontents
To keep up with the New York Intellectuals, Diana Trilling forgot—and forgave—nothing.
Vivian Gornick
-
FictionNovember 2, 2016
The Essential Ferrante
How the Italian novelist’s demand to remain anonymous reveals her true identity.
Vivian Gornick
-
The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.
-
BiographyMarch 3, 2016
Ms. Grief
Out of two new books, Constance Fenimore Woolson emerges as a figure of some dimension in her own right.
Vivian Gornick
-
SocietyAugust 17, 2015
-
Books and IdeasJune 2, 2015
Delmore’s Way
How the stormy eloquence of Delmore Schwartz made possible the glittering prose of Saul Bellow.
Vivian Gornick
-
Nation HistoryMarch 23, 2015
When the World Became a Huge Penitentiary
An eloquent portrait of underground life among the undocumented and the damned of the earth.
Emma Goldman and Vivian Gornick
-
BiographyNovember 25, 2013
Without Respite
Seeing not a person but a thing was the crime of crimes for Primo Levi.
Vivian Gornick
-
Arts and EntertainmentMarch 6, 2013
Darkness Lit From Within: On A.B. Yehoshua
The soul-destroying weariness in A.B. Yehoshua’s stories seems as old as time itself—and unique to contemporary Israel.
Vivian Gornick