TAKING A LONG LOOK

In these essays, Gornick explores the lives and literature of Alfred Kazin, Mary McCarthy, Diana Trilling, Philip Roth, Joan Didion, and Herman Melville/ the cultural impact of Silent Spring and Uncle Tom's Cabin/ and the characters you might only find in a New Yo rk barber shop or midtown bus terminal. Even more, All That Is Given brings back into print her incendiary essays, first published i n the Village Voice, championing the emergence of the women's liberation movement of the 1970s.