DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
Acute observations on women’s experience from a veteran radical
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
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.
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