• "Still marching after all these years. I am 84. At demonstrations against the Trump administration, I see people as old as I am everywhere," Boston Globe, June 21, 2025. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/21/opinion/trump-protests-generations-elderly/

Article. Op-ed. 

Solidarity. Age. Politics. Trump administration. Parents. Generational relations. Age peers. Activism. Memoir.

• "The Damages that 'Too Old' Inflicts on Politics and Society," Michigan Quarterly Review, June 2025. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2025/06/devastating-the-damages-that-too-old-inflicts-on-politics-and-society/

Essay. Online. Literary/cultural quarterly.

Ageism. COVID. Nursing Facilities. Politics. Biden. Trump. Media.

• “Five Years Later,” Generations Now, American Society on Aging, April 14, 2025. https://generations.asaging.org/cms-abandoned-ltc-residents-during-covid-what-now

Blog.

COVID. Nursing facilities. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. Trump administration. Long-term care. American Eldercide. Public health.

• “Integrity. Can it be Learned? Can it be Taught?” Next Avenue, Personal Perspectives, April 2, 2025. https://www.nextavenue.org/integrity-learned-taught/

Article.

Social philosophy. Autobiography. Family memoir. Childhood. Education.

• “The Death Pill: The Room Next Door is Stylish and Even Watchable... But Not Brave Enough,” The Chicago Blog, U of Chicago, March 12, 2025. https://pressblog.uchicago.edu/2025/03/11/a-guest-post-from-margaret-gullette-author-of-american-eldercide.html

Blog.

Film. End-of-life care. Medical Assistance in Dying. Arts criticism.

• "On the Unsung Pleasures of Very Long Friendship," Silver Century, March 7, 2025. https://www.silvercentury.org/voicesviews/blog/margaret-gullette/

Blog.

Childhood. Girls. Older adults. Women. Friendship. Life course.

• "How Americans Learned to Accept that ‘the Old’ Would Die" [Excerpt from American Eldercide], The Nonprofit Quarterly, February 10, 2025. https://nonprofitquarterly.org/how-americans-learned-to-accept-that-the-old-would-die/

  Excerpt.

American Eldercide. Nursing facilities. Cultural studies. Discourse analysis. “Duty to die.” COVID Era. Women. Poverty.

• "The Page 99 Test," Campaign for the American Reader, Marshall Zeringue site, February 2025. https://page99test.blogspot.com/search?q=gullette

Blog.

Excerpt from American Eldercide. Literary criticism. Analysis. Nursing facility deaths. Social justice.

• "Why I Wrote American Eldercide," Generations Now, January 9, 2025.   https://generations.asaging.org/why-i-wrote-american-eldercide [generations.asaging.org] 

Blog.

Writing. Eldercide. Ageism. Healthcare. Public Health. Triage. Neoliberalism. Social philosophy.

• “Preventing Eldercide in the United States: The Need for a New Social Contract with the Most Vulnerable,” Women and Therapy, Special Issue: Women in their 80s and 90s: Through a Lens of Positivity. Guest Editors: Ellen Cole and Patricia O’Connor Issue #4 (2024): 1-16. Online September 27, 2024. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/USNAWRKFJMTG8T6KHSX4/full?target=10.1080/02703149.2024.2390284. 

Essay. Invited. Peer-reviewed.

Psychology. Women. Therapy. Nursing Homes. Eldercide. Social Work. Later Life.

• “A good old age is something to wish for, but for many it can be out of reach,” Letter to the editor, Boston Globe, September 29, 2024. “Not everybody gets the choice to age well,” Boston Globe, September 27, 2024. Reprinted in https://dignityalliancema.org/dignityma-in-the-news/

Letter.

Aging. Poverty. Social class. Public health.

• “As if They Didn’t Exist, As if None Died Before Their Time: COVID Fictions and Nursing Home Residents,” Disability Issues, vol. 44, no. 4 (Fall  2024). https://mailchi.mp/b77d9c442b0b/were-back-disability-issues-newsletter-fall-2024?e=f2d9996ff1 

Article. Invited.

Literature. Novels. Representation. Disability. COVID.

• “Are Old People Still Human? On Ageist Humor,” Finale, Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Age, edited by Valerie Lipscomb and Aagje Swinnen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). 

Chapter. Invited. Illustrated.

Literature. Humor theory. Cartoons. Birthday cards. Narrative theory. Resisting stereotypes.

• “What “Too Old” Really Means in the COVID Era,” edited by Anita Wohlmann and Aagje Swinnen. Forum on “Ageism in Politics,” Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8, 2024. https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/article/view/144508

Short essay. Invited by an international editorial committee. 

Ageism. Politics. Culture. United States. Disability. Cult of youth. COVID Era.

• “On Further Cluelessness in the Media,” Asaging.org, November 1, 2023. https://generations.asaging.org/further-cluelessness-media

Blog. 

Ageism. Ableism. Visual ageism. Short fiction. Media. Criticism.

• “Mass. nursing homes should be subject of ‘excess deaths’ COVID study,” Letter to the Editor, Boston Globe, May 16, 2023.  https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/16/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-mass-nursing-homes-covid-study-excess-deaths/. 

Letter.

Nursing facilities. Deaths. COVID. 

• “My Only Fender Bender,” Cognoscenti, WBUR, May 1, 2023.

Blog.

Nursing facilities. Long-term care transformation. Politics. Massachusetts. Mother and daughter.

• “Everyone in a nursing home deserves a single room,” Ideas, Boston Globe, March 19, 2023. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/15/opinion/everyone-nursing-home-deserves-single-room. Reprinted in Silver Century and in Portside, April 22, 2023  https://portside.org/2023-04-22/everyone-nursing-home-deserves-single-room

Op-ed.

Nursing facilities. Long-term care transformation. Politics. Eldercide. Massachusetts. Public health.

• “Understaffing in health care,” Letter to the editor, New Bedford Light, February 2, 2023. https://newbedfordlight.org/comments-to-the-light-climate-change-education-septic-regulations-hit-home/

Letter. 

Understaffing. Nursing facilities. Health care.

• “Lawmakers must act, or public trust will be eroded,” Letter to the editor, Boston Globe, January 1, 2023.

Letter. 

Law. Prosecutorial misconduct. 

• “Declaration of Grievances,” Old School Clearing House, online, in four languages https://oldschool.info/resource/a-declaration-of-grievances 

Rutgers University Press, online, in English. https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/15175130/A-Declaration-of-Grievances_Eng.pdf 

Manifesto. 

Ageism. Grievances. Ending Ageism. Politics. US History. 

• “Confident Incontinence. A Century of Campaigns to Make Excretion Dignified,” Michigan Quarterly Review, vol. 62, no. 1 (Winter 2023), 51-62. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2023/01/confident-incontinence-a-century-of-campaigns-to-make-excretion-dignified/

Essay.

Nursing facility reform. Excretion. Cultural history. Cultural analysis. Sanitation. Biocomposting. Eco-toilets. 

• “My Park Avenue Year,” Salmagundi, Fall 2023. https://salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/485-my-park-avenue-year.  

Essay.

Age Autobiography. Social Issues. Class. Gender. Anti-semitism. College. Life-course development.

• “What, Menopause Again? A Guide to Cultural Combat,” Ms. Reprint of an article from July/August 1992, Fifty Years of Ms: The Magazine that Led a Revolution  (NY: Knopf, 2023).

Article reprint.

Women. Menopause. Ageism. The 1990s. Dysfunction industries.

• “My Mother’s Hands,” “Connections” column, Boston Globe Magazine, October 16, 2022.  https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/14/magazine/my-mothers-hands-looked-so-delicate-straight-out-john-singer-sargent-portrait/ 

Essay. 

Life course narratives.  Mothers and daughters. Autobiography. Love.

• “Reflections on the Turn to Ageism in Contemporary Cultural Discourse,” Theory Culture & Society,  September 19, 2022. http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/TCS/0/0.  DOI: 10.1177/0123456789123456. Paywall.

This link and published PDF are only for non-profit teaching purposes. https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/TAIMWTHG5GRDUJVVUIEV/full. Revised for American Eldercide.

Essay.

Cultural analysis. History of Gerontology. Ageism. Interviews. Politics. Rhetoric.  Language. Gerontology. Age Studies. Anti-ageism critique.

•  “Ageism Ignores And Insults The Competence Of Adults”; “Fight Ageism By Retiring The Offensive Metaphor, 'Getting Old’; "Ramping Up." August 17, 2022. https://philmoeller.substack.com/p/how-to-push-back-against-ageism

Reprints of three blogs. Online. 

Ageism. Rhetoric. Language. Architecture. Autobiography. 

• “Boomers: From Adorable Baby Bulge to #BoomerRemover,” Forum on Contested Language, Arts Culture Humanities 6, Summer 2022. https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/article/view/133335/178454 The entire Forum: https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/index

Essay.

Cultural analysis. Cultural history. Language. Social history. Named cohorts.

• “American Eldercide,” reprinted from Dissent, The Long Year: A 2020 Reader, edited by Thomas Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom. Public Books, Columbia University Press, 2022. 

Chapter. American Eldercide. 

Nursing facilities. Government. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. Ageism.

• “'An American Eldercide': Some 39% Of COVID Deaths Are In Nursing Homes. We Must Do Better,” Cognoscenti, January 19, 2021. https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2021/01/19/biden-covid-pandemic-national-mourning-ceremony-margaret-morganroth-gullette

Article. American Eldercide.

Nursing facilities. Monument. Government. Mourning. COVID. Public health.

• “American Eldercide,” Dissent, January 5, 2021. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/american-eldercide 

Article. American Eldercide

Nursing facilities. Government. COVID. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. Ageism.

• “Did America Elect a Benign Father Figure?” American Prospect, December 22, 2020.  My title, “How Biden Won: Amid the Traumas of the Covid Era, Did the US Just Choose A Good Father?” 

Article.

President Biden. Electoral Politics. US History. COVID Era. Traumas. Fathers.

• “Why We Need a Monument to Those Who are Dying in Nursing Homes,” Next Avenue, November 2020. My title: “A Vital Kinsmanship: Why We Need a Monument to Those Who are Dying in Nursing Homes.” 

Commentary. For American Eldercide.

Nursing Homes. Monument. Government. Mourning.

• “Must the Father Die? Rereading King Lear Over a Lifetime,” Salmagundi, Fall/Winter issue (September 28, 2020), pp. 186: https://issuu.com/skidmorecreative/docs/salmagundi_208-209. Also a pdf under Age Studies.

Essay. Literary/cultural quarterly.

Literature. Fiction. Nonfiction. Theater. Culture. Social history. Gender history. Fathers and daughters. Mothers. Jewish life and letters. Immigrants. King Lear. Memoir. Reading. Life course.

Honor: Cited as Notable in Best American Essays, 2021. 

• “Being Old is Not a Death Sentence—Even Now,” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 27, 2020 https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/old-not-death-sentence-even-now/

Commentary.

Eldercide. Social conditions. Ageism. Covid-19 pandemic. 

• Afterword: “When Age Studies and Cultural Studies Converge,” special issue on “Ageing and Literature,” Essays and Studies 73, edited by Elizabeth Barry and Margery Vibe Skagen, Summer 2020. Published by D.S. Brewer.

Private pdf available on request/Age Studies file.

Essay. Scholarly journal, invited.

Age Studies. Cultural Studies. Fiction. Ethics. Theory. 

Essays and Studies goes to the 4,000 members of the English Association, the professional association for English Studies in the UK. Held by most UK academic libraries, distributed worldwide by Boydell and Brewer. The organization includes schoolteachers and those in “Further Education” (sixth form colleges, continuing/adult education and the like).

•  “Linking Old-Age Justice and Racial Justice, Then and Now,” Los Angeles Review of Books, June 29, 2020. Written with Corinne T. Field. https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/linking-old-age-justice-racial-justice-now/

Commentary.

Medicare. Age. Race. Justice. 19th century. Nursing homes.

• “The Epic of Girlhood,” “Listen Up” page, Women’s Review of Books, June/July 2020.

Commentary (print and online).

Literature. Fiction. Age autobiography. Girls. Friendship.

• “My Father’s Frugal Habits Make Sense Now,” Next Avenue, May 12, 2020. https://www.nextavenue.org/my-frugal-father-then-and-now/. Reprinted in Forbes, May 12, 2020. 

Commentary. 

Father/daughter relations. Autobiography. Environmentalism.

• “Avoiding Bias and Tragedy in Triage” Tikkun, April 14, 2020. Reprinted on Silver Century. https://www.tikkun.org/avoiding-bias-and-tragedy-in-triage

Commentary. 

Covid-19. Triage. Ageism. Tragedy. Medical ageism.

• “Ageist ‘Triage’ is a Crime Against Humanity,” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 22, 2020. https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/ageist-triage-covid-19/ 

Reposted on the Website for the British Society for Gerontology ( "Please find attached the link to Margaret M. Gullette's excellent piece.") https://www.britishgerontology.org/DB/latest-news/ageist-triage-is-a-crime-against-humanity   https://tinyurl.com/v6rlxjm 

Blog. 

Covid-19. Ageism. Medical ageism. Triage. Pandemic.

• “Why I No Longer Fly to Conferences Abroad,” Washington Post, Feb 2, 2020. https://flipboard.com/@WashPost/why-i-no-longer-fly-to-conferences-abroad/f-bdb5b52400%2Fwashingtonpost.com 

Reprints: https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/opinion/20200208/column-why-i-no-longer-fly-to-conferences-abroad 

Commentary (online). 

Age autobiography. Global warming. Intergenerational relations. 

• “How Old Would You Want to Be in Heaven?” The Conversation, December 18, 2019. https://theconversation.com/how-old-would-you-want-to-be-in-heaven-127410 

“Academic rigor, journalistic flair” (their motto). 

Reprinted in Washington Post, National Interest, and other sites. 

Commentary (online).

Age autobiography. Religion. Art history. Renaissance. Romantic. Cult of youth. Mother. Old Age. Memory.

• “Inside the Fashion Cycle,” Los Angeles Review of Books, December 5, 2019. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/inside-the-fashion-cycle/ 

Essay (online). 

Gender. Fashion. Decline narrative. Ageism. 

The third in a series for LARB on “Ageism in America.” Editors nominated it for a Hillman award in commentary and analysis, along with two other 2019 essays: “Unwanted at Midlife” and “The Curious Case.” 

• "Contrived Generational Wars Disguise the Failure of the American Dream,” Boston Globe, Ideas section, October 13, 2019.                        https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2019/10/11/beware-labels-contrived-generational-wars-disguise-failure-american-dream/BwpcAnlGfHVsctTkpCX8tK/story.html   

Commentary. 

Economic history. Midlife. United States. Language. Cohorts. Intergenerational relations. Work. Middle Ageism.

•  “The Curious Case of the 69-year-old Who Tried to Drop His Legal Age to 49,” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 14, 2019. 

Essay. 

Ageism. Gender. Economics of the midlife. Sexuality. Work. 

Honor: Editors nominated it for a Hillman award in commentary and analysis.

• “Ramping Up: The Problem That Went Deeper than We Knew,” Silver Century, March 18, 2019. http://www.silvercentury.org/2019/03/ramping-up-the-problem-that-went-deeper-than-we-knew/  

Blog. Essay. 

Autobiography. Ageism. Architecture. Universal design.

• “Unwanted at Midlife: Not Old but ‘Too Old,’” Los Angeles Review of Books, February 20, 2019. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/unwanted-at-midlife-not-old-but-too-old/

Essay (online). 

Economics of the Life Course. Midlife. Middle Ageism.

• “Saviors and Survivors, Mentorship as Rescue,” Rediscovering Age(ing) Through Narratives of Mentorship: Essays in Cultural Gerontology, ed. by Núria Casado-Gual, Emma Domínguez-Rué, and Maricel Oró-Piqueras (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2019). 

Chapter in Book. 

Novels. Mentors. Intergenerational relations. Cultural gerontology.

• “History of Longevity Discourses,” section on Cultural Gerontology, edited by Sarah Falcus, Raquel Medina, and Aagje Swinnen, Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging, edited by Danan Gu and Matthew E. Dupre (Medford, MA: Springer, 2019). 

Encyclopedia entry. 

History. Longevity. US life course narratives. Decline. Progress. Gender. Race.

My work is also featured in the entry on “Decline and progress narratives.”