Gabrielle Bellot
Staff Writer at Literary Hub
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Staff writer @lithub. Formerly Editor + Head Instructor @CatapultStory. Trans. Work in @nytimes, @NewYorker, @nybooks, @TheAtlantic, @thecut, @ParisReview, etc.
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1 week ago |
lithub.com | Gabrielle Bellot
In the eighteenth century, Ireland was roughly eighty percent Catholic, but only five percent of Irish land was owned by Catholic landlords. Dispossession, reinforced by laws forbidding Catholic participation in political and economic life, were key features of British colonialism in Ireland. Article continues after advertisementColonization had a long history. In the twelfth century, Norman soldiers invaded Ireland, extending the Norman Conquest of England across the Irish Sea.
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lithub.com | Gabrielle Bellot
May is here, a new month of a year in which all too many days have felt like political Maydays, and yet there’s something reassuring about the weather warming and flowers blooming and days lengthening. For some readers, these are the perfect conditions for reading outside, when the weather, on certain days, is just, just right. And, to accompany you on those days, here are twenty-seven new ones to consider picking up in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
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2 weeks ago |
lithub.com | Gabrielle Bellot
May is here, and, with it, a bevy of new books to be excited about (and, difficult as it can be not to succumb to the Sisyphean rhythm of doomscrolling, new books are usually better places to turn our attention, if we can). Today, I’m focusing on exciting new paperbacks; if you missed them in hardcover, you’ve got another chance to enjoy them in these fresh editions.
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2 weeks ago |
lithub.com | Gabrielle Bellot
It’s the final Tuesday of April, a month characterized by chaos and Eliotesque cruelties alike, but there is more brightness in the (literal) skies, if nothing else, and to accompany this much-needed sun in a time of strangedark, I come bearing tidings of new books to read. Below, you’ll find twenty-four new offerings in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, with a bevy of beloved names and promising debuts alike.
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2 weeks ago |
lithub.com | Gabrielle Bellot
One day, when I was a teen, I remember my parents bringing me a collection of Roald Dahl’s short stories for adults. I had been a fan of Dahl’s fiction as a child, particularly Matilda and James and the Giant Peach, so it must’ve seemed only natural.
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