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18 new books to check out today!

18 new books to check out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 28, 2023

20 new books to check out today!

20 new books to check out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 21, 2023

16 new books to check out this week.

16 new books to check out this week.

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 14, 2023

6 new books to get your hands on this week.

6 new books to get your hands on this week.

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 7, 2023

The <em>Kindred</em> Adaptation Reclaims Octavia Butler’s “Grim Fantasy” for a New Era

The Kindred Adaptation Reclaims Octavia Butler’s “Grim Fantasy” for a New Era

Gabrielle Bellot: “No matter how long ago slavery might seem, it is always disquietingly close to us, both in time and memory.”

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 12, 2022

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

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Will and Attention: A Memoir
  • The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence
  • Luna, Phoenix, Queen
  • Music Against the Night
  • Peck & Peck
  • The Best Kind of American: A True Story of Murder, War, and America's Undoing in the Middle East
  • The End of Everything
  • Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science
  • American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs
  • Solace House

Mapping the Unknown: Literary Defamiliarization in Our Pandemic Era

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

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 24, 2021

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

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

How JK Rowling Betrayed the World<br> She Created

How JK Rowling Betrayed the World
She Created

Gabrielle Bellot on Transphobia and Growing Up with the Harry Potter Universe

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 10, 2020

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

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

Gabrielle Bellot on the Prescient Parallels of "The Machine Stops"

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 18, 2020

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

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