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Art Doesn’t Care If You Like It: Gabrielle Bellot on <em>The Sandman</em> Adaptation

Art Doesn’t Care If You Like It: Gabrielle Bellot on The Sandman Adaptation

“Why should art need to appease and excite everyone at once?”

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 19, 2022

Mapping the Unknown: Literary Defamiliarization in Our Pandemic Era

Mapping the Unknown: Literary Defamiliarization in Our Pandemic Era

Gabrielle Bellot on Viktor Shklovsky, the Risk of Life, and Art as a Way of Reencountering

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 14, 2022

The Only Living Black Man in New York: On an Overlooked, Subversive Sci-Fi Story by W.E.B. Du Bois

The Only Living Black Man in New York: On an Overlooked, Subversive Sci-Fi Story by W.E.B. Du Bois

Gabby Bellot Considers “The Comet” and the Pervasive Legacy
of the Color Line

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 24, 2021

Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf's Writings About Illness<br> and Disability

Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf's Writings About Illness
and Disability

Gabrielle Bellot Explores the Complexity of Detailing Sickness in the Age of COVID

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 16, 2020

The Ghosts of the Trump Presidency Will Linger Longer Than We Think

The Ghosts of the Trump Presidency Will Linger Longer Than We Think

Gabrielle Bellot on the Parallel Victories of the 2020 Election

By Gabrielle Bellot | November 13, 2020

Freedom Means <em>Can</em> Rather Than <em>Should</em>: What the <em>Harper's</em> Open Letter <br>Gets Wrong

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

By Gabrielle Bellot | July 8, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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How JK Rowling Betrayed the World
She Created

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 10, 2020

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

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 18, 2020

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

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

How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

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

How to Eulogize an Animal

Gabrielle Bellot on Pablo Neruda, Virginia Woolf, and Saying Goodbye to Dead Pets

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 12, 2019

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