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Gabrielle Bellot

Gabrielle Bellot
Gabrielle Bellot is a staff writer for Literary Hub. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, The Cut, Tin House, The Guardian, Guernica, The Normal School, The Poetry Foundation, Lambda Literary, and many other places. She is working on her first novel.


Freedom Means Can Rather Than Should: What the Harper’s Open Letter
Gets Wrong

Gabrielle Bellot on How It Feels To Have Your
Existence Up For Debate
July 8, 2020  By Gabrielle Bellot

How JK Rowling Betrayed the World
She Created

Gabrielle Bellot on Transphobia and Growing Up with the Harry Potter Universe
June 10, 2020  By Gabrielle Bellot

How E.M. Forster’s Only Foray Into Sci-Fi Predicted Social Distancing

Gabrielle Bellot on the Prescient Parallels of "The Machine Stops"
May 18, 2020  By Gabrielle Bellot
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Brilliance and Blind Spots:
Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

Gabrielle Bellot on the Seminal Essay, "On Self-Respect"
February 7, 2020  By Gabrielle Bellot
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For John Berger, the Time We Feel Most Deeply Can’t Be Kept on a Clock

Gabrielle Bellot on Berger's Final Collaboration
December 16, 2019  By Gabrielle Bellot
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On the Darkness at the Heart of Jamaica Kincaid’s Children’s Mystery

Gabrielle Bellot Considers Party
October 7, 2019  By Gabrielle Bellot
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On Justin Trudeau, Virginia Woolf, and the Orientalist History of Brownface

Gabrielle Bellot: "Blackface and brownface were always power moves when worn by white people."
September 23, 2019  By Gabrielle Bellot
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The Literal (and Figurative) Whiteness of
Moby Dick

For Herman Melville, the Color White Could Be Horrifyingly Bleak
August 1, 2019  By Gabrielle Bellot
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Dear Internet: The Little Mermaid Also Happens to Be Queer Allegory

On the Origins of Hans Christian Andersen's Fable
of Frustrated Affection
July 12, 2019  By Gabrielle Bellot
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How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

Gabrielle Bellot on the Groundbreaking Memoir Fun Home
June 26, 2019  By Gabrielle Bellot
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How to Eulogize an Animal

Gabrielle Bellot on Pablo Neruda, Virginia Woolf, and Saying Goodbye to Dead Pets
June 12, 2019  By Gabrielle Bellot
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Gabrielle Bellot on the Dreamy, Queer Beauty of On a Sunbeam

The Moody, Women-Centered Graphic Novel Space Opera
We Need Right Now
May 28, 2019  By Gabrielle Bellot
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James Baldwin in Paris: On the Virtuosic Shame of Giovanni’s Room

"If France proffered him love, it also bathed him in a peculiar shade of loneliness."
April 25, 2019  By Gabrielle Bellot
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Same Phony Fear, Different Decade:
On the Damaging Discourse Around Trans Rights

Gabrielle Bellot on the Shameful Debate on the Equality Act
April 5, 2019  By Gabrielle Bellot
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How Jamaica Kincaid Helped Me Understand My Mother

Gabrielle Bellot on Power, Authority, and the Women in Her Life
March 22, 2019  By Gabrielle Bellot
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Even If Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude Inspires Wonder, Will It Be Enough?

Gabrielle Bellot on the Complexities of Adapting a Masterpiece
March 8, 2019  By Gabrielle Bellot
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What Barry Jenkins Missed in His Adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk

Gabrielle Bellot Thinks James Baldwin Deserves Better
February 8, 2019  By Gabrielle Bellot
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In Praise of the Difficult: On Marianne Moore, Defiant Poet of Complexity

Gabrielle Bellot: "I’m accustomed to difficulty."
February 5, 2019  By Gabrielle Bellot
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On Danticat, Camus, and the Art of Exile

Gabrielle Bellot Reminds Us That Immigrant Art is American Art
January 30, 2019  By Gabrielle Bellot
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When Even the Greatest of Writers Grapples with Self-Doubt

Gabrielle Bellot on W.B. Yeats and the Fine Line Between Arrogance and Humility
January 28, 2019  By Gabrielle Bellot
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