Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time by Vivian Gornick

Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time by Vivian GornickFor nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing writing from the course of her career, All That is Given illuminates one of the driving themes behind Gornick's work: that the painful process of understanding one's self is what binds us to the larger world. In these essays,

watching his wife dying of Spanish flu - the world's worst pandemic

1 bestselling author David Walliams - a deliciously daft Tall Story of a child who had everything

mixing up her maid's wages and leaving the gas on all night

Friendship

Manson turns his gaze from the inevitable flaws within each individual self to the endless calamities taking place in the world around us

delightful detours along peaceful back roads

too loud or too quiet

it feels unsettlingly timely' Pankaj Mishra

the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames

Stories include:* The Children of Lir* Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Salmon of Knowledge* The King with the Donkey Ears* The Cattle Raid of Cooley * Fionn and the Dragon* The Giant's Causeway* Deirdre of the Sorrows* Diarmuid and Grainne* Oisin and Niamh in Tir na nOg* Setanta becomes Cuchulainn

are a mark of her distinctiveness as a poet

dreaming of other worlds