Emily Fox Gordon

Emily Fox Gordonis the author of two memoirs, a novel, and a collection of essays, Book of Days. Her second novel, Madeleine and Jane, was published last September.

Tramping With Virginia

A seminal essay about walking the streets of London can present challenges in the classrooms of today

By Emily Fox Gordon | Thursday May 9, 2024

An Atheist’s Lament

Is anyone—even a lifelong nonbeliever—ever truly done with religion?

By Emily Fox Gordon | Monday December 7, 2020
Black-and-white photo of two people talking

How I Learned to Talk

Conversation once offered entry into other people’s minds. Has that disappeared?

By Emily Fox Gordon | Tuesday September 3, 2019

Against Solidarity

As a writer, with a writer’s chronic need for detachment, I have avoided the ideology of gender

By Emily Fox Gordon | Tuesday September 5, 2017

Philip Roth’s Patrimony

An elegiac story of change and loss

By Emily Fox Gordon | Monday August 24, 2015

Confessing and Confiding

Knowing the difference between the two can elevate an essay from therapy to art

By Emily Fox Gordon | Wednesday March 4, 2015

At Sixty-Five

After the excesses of youth and terrors of middle age, a writer faces the contingencies of being old

By Emily Fox Gordon | Monday June 10, 2013

Tramping With Virginia

By Emily Fox Gordon | Thursday May 9, 2024

An Atheist’s Lament

By Emily Fox Gordon | Monday December 7, 2020
Black-and-white photo of two people talking

How I Learned to Talk

By Emily Fox Gordon | Tuesday September 3, 2019

Against Solidarity

By Emily Fox Gordon | Tuesday September 5, 2017

Philip Roth’s Patrimony

By Emily Fox Gordon | Monday August 24, 2015

Confessing and Confiding

By Emily Fox Gordon | Wednesday March 4, 2015

At Sixty-Five

By Emily Fox Gordon | Monday June 10, 2013

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