Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Culture
‘George’: Soprano Sonia Yoncheva’s first recital album celebrates the life of George Sand
April 17, 2025The singer uses her voice and melodies to bring to life France’s most eminent 19th-century feminist.
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Culture
Moyshe Kulbak’s ‘The Zelmenyaners’: A Yiddish novel about the early Revolutionary Soviet years
March 31, 2025Moyshe Kulbak’s The Zelmenyaners first appeared in English translation in 2013, but it escaped my attention. It has now appeared in a new edition from White Goat Press, an imprint of the Yiddish Book Center in...
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Culture
‘Beatnik Girl’ offers the woman’s point of view on the Beat Generation
March 25, 2025Anyone interested in this period should check out this play.
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Culture
A stunning exhibition of women’s art on view in La Paz, Bolivia
March 17, 2025The museum is the main repository for Bolivia’s artistic heritage, with many paintings and artifacts from the pre-Columbian, the colonial period, and the time (200 years in 2025) of Bolivia’s national independence.
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Opinion
Venezuela’s Ambassador to Bolivia in a Q&A with a North American delegation
March 13, 2025This cannot be considered a definitive statement of the views of the Venezuelan government, but for its news value, we hope readers will find this collective interview timely and informative.
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Culture
Little Tokyo hosts world premiere of opera ‘The Camp’ about Japanese-American internment
March 13, 2025Little Tokyo’s JACCC Aratani Theatre hosted the world premiere of a new opera, in English, about a Japanese-American family wrongfully placed in a concentration camp in 1942.
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Environment
Some brief notes about coca in Bolivia
March 11, 2025A North American traveling to some parts of South America—Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, for example—is intrigued by these lands as the locus for a major source of drugs in the United States, cocaine in particular.
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Culture
‘Alabaster’: The physical scars are healed now, but how about the spirit?
March 10, 2025I am beginning to believe the Fountain Theatre is constitutionally infallible. I can’t think of a play I’ve seen here that hasn’t met the highest standards of artistry.
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