Carole V. Bell

Recent Writing — Online Portfolio

A New National Museum of the American Latino Moves Forward as It Fights to Find Its Footing

The best radical books of 2024

Interview: ‘If We Are Brave’ explores the political souls of Black folks in Trump’s America

Review for NPR: 'Colored Television' is an ungentle satire set in post-post-racial America

Interview with Danzy Senna, author of Colored Television

The Black Romance Podcast — Season Four

Review for The Emancipator: Mary McLeod Bethune gets her due in new biography

A terrifying dystopia built from our own past and present - The Boston Globe

The Black Romance Podcast Season Four: Tia Williams

Akwaeke Emezi's novel 'Little Rot' is a thrilling but difficult descent into darkness

NPR: Queenie's second life on screen gives her more room to grow

Wash Post Review | ‘Swift River,’ a sparkling debut about a young girl you’ll never forget

The Boston Globe: 75 books we’re most excited to read this summer

Why Patricia Highsmith's most famous creature, Tom Ripley, continues to fascinate

NPR: ‘James' revisits Huck Finn's traveling companion, giving rise to a new classic

NPR: ‘Anita de Monte Laughs Last' is a complex dissection of art, gender and marriage

NPR: Advice from a critic: Read 'Erasure' before seeing 'American Fiction'

Oprah Daily: The Power of Percival Everett: America’s Incendiary Man of Letters

IndieWire: How Black Actors Broke Through in Old Hollywood — Day to Day, Role to Role

Hallmark's Monthlong Homage to Love and Jane Austen Includes a Reimagined Black Cast 'Sense and Sensibility' — NPR

2023 was the year of the social thriller; My top six picks — The Boston Globe

Why Kiley Reid's New novel ‘Come and Get It’ left me wanting - The Boston Globe

Cvbell.com— Bio, Updates, Select Writing

LinkedIn

USF Faculty Bio: Carole V. Bell | Communication Department |

Black Romance Authors and Editors Share Their Passion for Love Stories

Books We Love by NPR

Safiya Sinclair’s memoir, ‘How to Say Babylon,’ surpasses the hype

Debut novel 'The God of Good Looks' adds to growing canon of Caribbean literature

Reel Visibility: PW Talks with Tre’vell Anderson

What to Read When You Need to Start Over

NYTimes: Her Father Vanished. Years Later, Her Family Is Figuring Out How to Mourn.

NPR: Dr. No is a delightfully escapist romp and an incisive sendup of espionage fiction

Oprah Daily: Romances That Make You Feel the Love (the Real Love)

Washington Post: ‘The House of Eve’ is a triumph of historical fiction Sadeqa Johnson’s novel is an affecting and arresting exploration of young Black womanhood and motherhood in the mid-20th century.

Oprah Daily: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Relentless Vision for Octavia Butler’s “Kindred”

A Discerning Booklovers Guide to TV— Oprah Daily

Oprah Daily: The Spectacular Legacy and Sparkling Future of “Queen Sugar”

NYTimes: So You’re Rivals? And You’re Fake-Dating? Classic.

BookPage Cover Story: This summer’s hottest read is Akwaeke Emezi’s first romance novel

Oprah: Crime Fiction Goes Global and Diverse, as These 20 Books by Women Writers Show

NPR: Five books at the intersection of Black feminist thought, culture, and politics

The Atlantic: Love Stories in Literary Fiction. Five Books in Which Romance Sneaks Up on You

NPR: Percival Everett's Latest Grounds Racial Allegory In History, Horror And Blood

Essay: "I'm Rooting for Everybody Black" in the BLACK LOVE MATTERS Collection | Starred Review from Kirkus

NPR: ‘Passing' — the original 1929 novel — is disturbingly brilliant

New York Times: Review of Island Queen, a historical novel by Vanessa Riley

theGrio Top 50: A Thematic Guide to the Best Books of Summer

NPR: Review of Razorblade Tears

New York Times: In Beverly Jenkins’s Romance Novels, Black History Is Front and Center

Muckrack Writing Portfolio

Carole V. Bell at Oprah Daily

My Author Page at TheGrio

Reviews for BookPage

My Reviews excerpted on LitHub

My Writing for Book Riot

Black Kiss-Story on NPR Code Switch

CaribBelle Blog

GoodReads