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Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
Maybe someday
33
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Readers
26/100Critics
40/100Scholars
Author:
Vivian Gornick
Publisher:
Verso
Date:
March 16, 2021
Drawing on writing from the course of her fifty-year career, this book illuminates one of the driving themes behind Gornick's work: the painful process of understanding one's self that binds us to the larger world.
What The Reviewers Say
Gornick’s essays in Taking A Long Look still feel fresh.
Gornick (85) is a shrewd, droll and avowedly feminist essayist and critic. These previously published writings, collected in reverse chronological order (from the late 2010s to early 1970s), offer a fascinating insight into what has been achieved and what has been lost during those five decades.
... a collection of essays on literature, culture, feminism, and New York. Many things work against this collection, including the fact that because these essays have been republished decades after their original appearance in other publications, the book feels anachronistic.
A feminist perspective on life and art.
