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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."
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| September 23, 2019
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:
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
How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction
Gabrielle Bellot on the Groundbreaking Memoir
Fun Home
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| June 26, 2019
How to Eulogize an Animal
Gabrielle Bellot on Pablo Neruda, Virginia Woolf, and Saying Goodbye to Dead Pets
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| June 12, 2019
Gabrielle Bellot on the Dreamy, Queer Beauty of
On a Sunbeam
The Moody, Women-Centered Graphic Novel Space Opera
We Need Right Now
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| May 28, 2019
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
James Baldwin in Paris: On the Virtuosic Shame of
Giovanni's Room
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| April 25, 2019
Same Phony Fear, Different Decade:
On the Damaging Discourse Around Trans Rights
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| April 5, 2019
How Jamaica Kincaid Helped Me Understand My Mother
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| March 22, 2019
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
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
Gabrielle Bellot: "I’m accustomed to difficulty."
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| February 5, 2019
On Danticat, Camus, and the Art of Exile
Gabrielle Bellot Reminds Us That Immigrant Art is American Art
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| January 30, 2019
When Even the Greatest of Writers Grapples with Self-Doubt
Gabrielle Bellot on W.B. Yeats and the Fine Line Between Arrogance and Humility
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| January 28, 2019
On Sylvia Plath and the Many Shades of Depression
Gabrielle Bellot Considers How a Writer's Work is Measured Against Her Death
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| December 13, 2018
Gabrielle Bellot: The Story I Kept Hidden
On Brett Kavanaugh, Sexual Assault, and Not Staying Silent
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| October 11, 2018
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