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Vivian Gornick

Bylines

The Rebellions of Murray Kempton

One of his generation’s most prolific journalists, Kempton never turned a blind eye to the inequalities all around him.

by Vivian Gornick via The Nation
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on April 8, 2025
The 176-Year Argument

How the City College of New York went from an experiment in public education to an intellectual hot spot for working class and immigrant students.

by Vivian Gornick via New York Review of Books
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on April 3, 2025
What We Want Is to Start a Revolution

Formed in 1912 for “women who did things—and did them openly,” the Heterodoxy Club laid the groundwork for a century of American feminism.

by Vivian Gornick via New York Review of Books
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on July 28, 2022
What Endures of the Romance of American Communism

Many Communists who felt destined for a life of radicalism experienced their lives as irradiated by a kind of expressiveness that made them feel centered.

by Vivian Gornick via New York Review of Books
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on April 3, 2020
Little House, Small Government

How Laura Ingalls Wilder’s frontier vision of freedom and survival lives on in Trump’s America.

by Vivian Gornick via The New Republic
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on November 16, 2017
When the World Became a Huge Penitentiary

An eloquent portrait of underground life among the undocumented and the damned of the earth.

by Emma Goldman, Vivian Gornick via The Nation
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on March 23, 2015

The Romance of American Communism

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Bad Romance

The afterlife of Vivian Gornick's "The Romance of American Communism" shows that we bear the weight of dead generations—and sometimes living ones, too.

by Alyssa Battistoni via Dissent on April 13, 2020

Young Communists pose for a photograph.

The Inner Life of American Communism

Vivian Gornick’s and Jodi Dean’s books mine a lost history of comradeship, determination, and intimacy.

by Corey Robin via The Nation on May 5, 2020

Collage of women's faces in outlines of women's bodies

What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women?

“Girl on Girl,” by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of the decade’s formative texts.

by Dayna Tortorici via The New Yorker on June 9, 2025

The Young Lords in New York, 1969-1976.

How New York City’s Radical Social Movements Gave Rise to Hip-Hop

The revolutionary history behind one of America’s main musical exports.

by Dean Van Nguyen via Literary Hub on May 6, 2025

Anti-War and Anti-Fascist Demonstration In New York

Cameras for Class Struggle

How the radical documentarians of the Workers' Film and Photo League put their art in the service of social movements.

by Max Pearl via Art In America on April 21, 2021

The Tyranny of the Minority, from Iowa Caucus to Electoral College

The problem of minority rule isn’t Trumpian or temporary; it’s bipartisan and enduring.

by Corey Robin via New York Review of Books on February 21, 2020

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