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Claire L Bell

Claire L Bell

Check your prejudice. Use your privilege.

There is a chasm between the actual world and the world of ideas, and the writer’s job is to build a bridge to connect the two. These…

Aug 3, 2020

Check your prejudice. Use your privilege.

Aug 3, 2020

Claire L Bell

“White privilege” is not up to the task

When Granddad Jack died I inherited two pairs of socks. A pair of woolly green hiking socks and a pair of long beige socks that he had…

Sep 1, 2017

Sep 1, 2017

Claire L Bell

What I write about when I am not writing

I am nursing a wound. You can’t see it, but I can feel it. It’s on the lower right hand side of my heart. Sometimes it spreads to my solar…

Aug 22, 2017

What I write about when I am not writing

Aug 22, 2017

Claire L Bell

“I hate white South Africans”

There’s a bar in Glasgow called The Old Hairdressers. It’s down an unlit back lane, the plaster and paint are peeling off the walls, and…

Jun 13, 2017

“I hate white South Africans”

Jun 13, 2017

Claire L Bell

How many white liberals are in South Africa?

In November last year I was in Sweet Auburn, Atlanta. I was in town for a conference about racial justice (or the lack thereof) with my…

Jun 13, 2017

How many white liberals are in South Africa?

Jun 13, 2017

Claire L Bell

The readers’ wrath

A few years ago I visited Salinas in California, where John Steinbeck grew up. At the end of a quiet street with a burger bar and a few…

Jun 13, 2017

The readers’ wrath

Jun 13, 2017

Claire L Bell

How to kill a watchman

Just over a year ago, Go Set a Watchman, the sequel to Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, was published. I remember the furore with which…

Jul 4, 2016

How to kill a watchman

Jul 4, 2016

Claire L Bell

Lost in Kos

The police station overlooks the sea. A crowd is queuing outside, spilling onto the street. A heavy-handed policeman, dressed in black…

Aug 14, 2015

Lost in Kos

Aug 14, 2015

Claire L Bell

Claire L Bell

Writer. Unpopularessays.com. Longlisted for Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize 2017. Represented by WatsonLittle literary agents. @writerclb

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