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BiographyFebruary 19, 2013
A Deliberate Pace: On Rachel Carson
On a Farther Shore captures the conservationist’s deep sense of geologic time and the forces of evolution.
Vivian Gornick
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BiographyApril 3, 2012
A Double Inheritance: On Margaret Fuller
A nineteenth-century feminist’s exceptional life.
Vivian Gornick
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Occupy MovementDecember 7, 2011
Emma Goldman Occupies Wall Street
This is the second time in living memory that an American movement protesting social injustice has embraced her.
Vivian Gornick
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Autobiography and MemoirNovember 16, 2011
Starting out in Seattle: On Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban has made a persona out of the self that feels nowhere at home.
Vivian Gornick
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BiographyApril 13, 2011
History and Heartbreak: The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg wanted it all: books and music, sex and art, evening walks and the revolution. Her lover, Leo Jogiches, told her this was nonsense.
Vivian Gornick
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BiographyFebruary 15, 2007
Before the Law
Isaac B. Singer: A Life fails to fully illustrate the complexity of the writer’s struggle with his heritage.
Vivian Gornick
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BiographyNovember 17, 2005
The Scrivener and the Whale
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.
Vivian Gornick
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BiographyMay 26, 2005