Gabrielle Bellot

Fall is here, a season with a name rather suggestive in the unsettling times we find ourselves in—but art can always help us navigate the strangedark. To that end, I come bearing new books to consi…

The end of the summer is almost here, and it feels difficult to believe that fall is approaching; 2025 remains a year in which time has consistently seemed too fast and too slow all at once. Still,…

Hi, everyone. Just a brief introduction this week, as I’m dealing with loss, but don’t let that brevity distract or detract from the brilliant new offerings below. You’ll find exc…

It’s August, and, despite (or because of) the madness of the world, I come bearing new books. Below, you’ll find twenty-six remarkable new options to consider in fiction, nonfiction, an…

August is here, and with this new month comes new books to look forward to—and we certainly need things to look forward to. Below, you’ll find a whopping twenty-seven new books to consider in…

August, astonishingly, is here, and it feels hard to believe that the summer is nearing its end. But so it goes. And with such so-going, you should know what I have to say next: that I come bearing…

The end of July is nigh in a summer that has at once flown by and felt curiously glacial. As August approaches, I come bearing literary tidings: sixteen new books to consider in fiction, nonfiction…

The wheel of the year continues its slow, strange turn, a turning at once painfully glacial and precipitously swift. At the moment, the wheel has landed upon a morass of MAGA conspiracies, lurid re…

It’s just about the middle of summer in a summer characterized by utter chaos, but I come bearing something rare in this era: good tidings. That is, the good news that new books are out today…

July 4th has passed, and, as we enter the post-holiday rush, it’s worth remembering that, as always, there are new books to look forwards to, despite the difficult chaos of the world. Below, …

I hope you’re all safe and well, Dear Readers, as safe and well as anyone can be in this unsettling moment in a seemingly unending frieze of unsettling moments. No matter what happens, art re…

July is here! And, amongst other things, that means another month of excellent paperbacks to consider, which I hope will provide a few brief antidotes to the toxicity of the political landscape. Be…

June is nearing its end, and though I come bearing no good news about the fate of the world—it remains as destructively chaotic as last week, if not more so—I do come bearing some good tidings: tha…

The summer continues on, a summer already marked by corybantic chaos in America and abroad. Sometimes, I must admit, it feels so strange to see the horrors of the world in one moment and think abou…

June rolls on, and I come bearing tidings, as always, of exciting new books out today to consider. (One of these, the self-styled queer-chaotic anthology Be Gay, Do Crime actually came out last wee…

The summer is here! And while that message is perhaps inescapably bittersweet this year, what with the world being on fire in ways both metaphorical and all-too-literal, it remains a truth universa…

June is here, which means that summer has also arrived. And even in a horrific world—or especially in one—there is power in small comforts, including warmer, sunnier days, and what better than to h…

May is nearing its end, and this has been a month that once again will be remembered most, perhaps, for its political and socioeconomic horrors, for its ever-larger steps towards American fascism. …

Another Tuesday is here, and, as always, that means that a bevy of new books will be hitting the shelves. The world is still chaotic and scary, as always, but having some constants to look forward …

It’s just about the middle of May, and the world continues to be a phantasmagoric horror show unfolding at once too quickly and too slowly. But, through it all, and despite governmental attem…