Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Traducción genial del drama ‘Círculo vicioso’ (1972) del escritor mexicano José Agustín
January 8, 2020La acción de Círculo vicioso tiene lugar en la infame cárcel de Lecumberri en México, D.F. El elenco es todo de hombres. El drama se enfoca en las condiciones de la cárcel, las probabilidades de que...
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A revelatory performance of Erich Korngold’s opera ‘Der Ring des Polykrates’
December 23, 2019The 1914 one-act opera, composed when the precocious Korngold was but 17 years old, is in a full-blown, late German Romantic idiom.
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At the Wende, ‘Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain’
December 20, 2019The extraordinarily vital and creative Wende Museum of the Cold War is currently commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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‘Fire in My Mouth’: Julia Wolfe’s choral response to the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
December 18, 2019Great tragedy often inspires great art.
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Trump executive order on Jewish nationality: ploy to limit free speech
December 13, 2019"Most of us, I think, know that whenever bigotry runs free, we’re likely to be among its victims.”
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‘The Dinner Party Before the Revolution’: Jim Smith’s radical West Coast poetry
December 12, 2019Jim Smith is not a “poet’s poet” writing primarily for his peers in the literary Parnassus. His poems have a rough-and-tumble, earthy, proletarian grittiness that’s not afraid to get its feet dirty.
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‘Citizen K’: Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the birthing of the new Russia
December 10, 2019Citizen K is totally riveting from beginning to end, assuming a viewer has some interest in the subject.
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‘Vicious Circle,’ Mexican writer José Agustín’s 1972 play in brilliant translation
December 6, 2019This great work has steeped and grown and matured into a mighty, and a mighty impressive contribution not only to literary scholarship but frankly to working-class culture.
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