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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

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On Danticat, Camus, and the Art of Exile

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 30, 2019

When Even the Greatest of Writers Grapples with Self-Doubt

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 28, 2019

On Sylvia Plath and the Many Shades of Depression

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 13, 2018

Gabrielle Bellot: The Story I Kept Hidden

Gabrielle Bellot: The Story I Kept Hidden

On Brett Kavanaugh, Sexual Assault, and Not Staying Silent

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 11, 2018

Gabrielle Bellot: On the Enigma of V.S. Naipaul

Gabrielle Bellot: On the Enigma of V.S. Naipaul

Bigoted, Violent, and Swirling with Contradictions

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 14, 2018

1921 · 1946 · 1984 · 2018 A Genealogy of the Totalitarian Novel

1921 · 1946 · 1984 · 2018 A Genealogy of the Totalitarian Novel

What Yevgeny Zamyatin's We Says About Us

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 7, 2018

On Marjane Satrapi’s Early #MeToo Novel

On Marjane Satrapi’s Early #MeToo Novel

How Embroideries Reveals the Power of Women's Stories

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 30, 2018

Music and My Father

Music and My Father

Gabrielle Bellot on Growing Up Between the Silence and the Sound

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 10, 2018

Kevin Williamson, Transphobia, and the Myth of Ideological Diversity

Kevin Williamson, Transphobia, and the Myth of Ideological Diversity

When the Center Moves Right, Extremism Looks Normal

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 4, 2018

Stephen Hawking Was a Poet

Stephen Hawking Was a Poet

Gabrielle Bellot on Dreams of a Distant Star

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 15, 2018

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