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Brilliance and Blind Spots:<br> Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

Brilliance and Blind Spots:
Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

Gabrielle Bellot on the Seminal Essay, "On Self-Respect"

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 7, 2020

For John Berger, the Time We Feel Most Deeply Can't Be Kept on a Clock

For John Berger, the Time We Feel Most Deeply Can't Be Kept on a Clock

Gabrielle Bellot on Berger's Final Collaboration

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 16, 2019

On the Darkness at the Heart of Jamaica Kincaid's Children's Mystery

On the Darkness at the Heart of Jamaica Kincaid's Children's Mystery

Gabrielle Bellot Considers Party

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 7, 2019

On Justin Trudeau, Virginia Woolf, and the Orientalist History of Brownface

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."

By Gabrielle Bellot | September 23, 2019

The Literal (and Figurative) Whiteness of<br> <em>Moby Dick</em>

The Literal (and Figurative) Whiteness of
Moby Dick

For Herman Melville, the Color White Could Be Horrifyingly Bleak

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 1, 2019

Dear Internet: <em>The Little Mermaid</em> Also Happens to Be Queer Allegory

Dear Internet: The Little Mermaid Also Happens to Be Queer Allegory

On the Origins of Hans Christian Andersen's Fable
of Frustrated Affection

By Gabrielle Bellot | July 12, 2019

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Books of the Week

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How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 26, 2019

How to Eulogize an Animal

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 12, 2019

Gabrielle Bellot on the Dreamy, Queer Beauty of On a Sunbeam

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 28, 2019

James Baldwin in Paris: On the Virtuosic Shame of <em>Giovanni's Room</em>

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."

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 25, 2019

Same Phony Fear, Different Decade: <br>On the Damaging Discourse Around Trans Rights

Same Phony Fear, Different Decade:
On the Damaging Discourse Around Trans Rights

Gabrielle Bellot on the Shameful Debate on the Equality Act

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 5, 2019

How Jamaica Kincaid Helped Me Understand My Mother

How Jamaica Kincaid Helped Me Understand My Mother

Gabrielle Bellot on Power, Authority, and the Women in Her Life

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 22, 2019

Even If Netflix's <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em> Inspires Wonder, Will It Be Enough?

Even If Netflix's One Hundred Years of Solitude Inspires Wonder, Will It Be Enough?

Gabrielle Bellot on the Complexities of Adapting a Masterpiece

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 8, 2019

What Barry Jenkins Missed in His Adaptation of <em>If Beale Street Could Talk</em>

What Barry Jenkins Missed in His Adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk

Gabrielle Bellot Thinks James Baldwin Deserves Better

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 8, 2019

In Praise of the Difficult: On Marianne Moore, Defiant Poet of Complexity

In Praise of the Difficult: On Marianne Moore, Defiant Poet of Complexity

Gabrielle Bellot: "I’m accustomed to difficulty."

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 5, 2019

On Danticat, Camus, and the Art of Exile

On Danticat, Camus, and the Art of Exile

Gabrielle Bellot Reminds Us That Immigrant Art is American Art

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 30, 2019

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