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6 new books to get your hands on this week.
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| March 7, 2023
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
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
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
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
and Disability
Gabrielle Bellot Explores the Complexity of Detailing Sickness in the Age of COVID
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| December 16, 2020
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
The Ghosts of the Trump Presidency Will Linger Longer Than We Think
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| November 13, 2020
Freedom Means
Can
Rather Than
Should
: What the
Harper's
Open Letter
Gets Wrong
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| July 8, 2020
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
Gabrielle Bellot on the Prescient Parallels of "The Machine Stops"
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| May 18, 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
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
Gabrielle Bellot Considers
Party
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| October 7, 2019
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
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