To Annie Ernaux, "literary length is not an indicator of literary labour: 'My books are so short because I spend a long time writing them,' she has said." More from the spectacular The Observer New Review profile on Ernaux theguardian.com/books/2023/may…

“When an event demands you rise to the occasion, and you feel that you cannot… Well, actually, you can.” Check out this recent @Guardian article about 2022 literature laureate Annie Ernaux, who talked with Alice Blackhurst about her career and activism: bit.ly/3oq3OQm

This week’s The TLS, featuring Sarah Baxter on Trump’s competition; Peter Parker on Noël Coward; Alice Blackhurst on Monique Wittig; Boyd Tonkin on the NPG; Catherine Taylor on Eliza Clark; Pablo Scheffer on time in the Middle Ages – and more

Reviewed a new edition of Monique Wittig’s The Lesbian Body in the 14th July edition of the TLS this week: the-tls.co.uk/articles/le-co…

Wrote about new translations of Anne Serre for New Left Review

A preview of my foreword to Marguerite Duras’s MY CINEMA, publishing this month Another Gaze / Another Screen

« This is no arid feminist manifesto, but, rather, an earthy and absorbing story of “what gets done to women”, in the world » Alice Blackhurst on Fabriquer une femme by Marie Darrieussecq in this week’s The TLS the-tls.co.uk/articles/fabri…

Alice Blackhurst (Alice Blackhurst) on the work of Heather Lewis. ‘Rigorously deviant, technically merciless, to read it is almost an act of physical exertion, the effect viscerally stunning like a gut-punch.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

'Rigorously deviant, technically merciless' Read Alice Blackhurst's piece on Notice by Heather Lewis for the New Left Review 🖤🩷 newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/… Alice Blackhurst Get your copy of Notice: serpentstail.com/work/notice/

Tonight at London Review Bookshop! Constance Debré in conversation with Alice Blackhurst for a sold out London event, discussing Constance's novels Playboy, Love Me Tender, and much more: eventbrite.co.uk/e/constance-de… Serpent's Tail Semiotext(e)

On Constance Debré’s novel Playboy last night London Review Bookshop Serpent's Tail

A conversation I had with Constance Debré in Paris in February now up BOMB Magazine

‘To take Duras literally on any aspect of her oeuvre often involves subjecting oneself to a degree of confusion and ambiguity’— Alice Blackhurst introducing the beautiful Another Gaze / Another Screen translation of MY CINEMA

New at PB, Alice Blackhurst asked Emily Wells, Emma Ramadan, Marouane Bakhti, @LaurenElkin, Xiaolu Gu, Joanna Biggs, Claire Foster, Olivia Baes, @becbecliuliu to reflect on Marguerite Duras’s 1984 cult novel “The Lover,” published forty years ago. buff.ly/4dDGOkx

Marguerite Duras’s “The Lover,” Alice Blackhurst writes, shows that we can never fully grasp the outline of a life’s unfolding. Read a collection of responses to “The Lover” on the fortieth year of its publication, new at PB: buff.ly/3U4t0bJ

ISSUE 74 (WINTER 2022-2023): After Beauty FEATURING Federico Sargentone Emily Segal @francescoten Quinn Latimer Dean Kissick Lynne Tillman Martin Herbert Boris Groys Federico Campagna Alice Blackhurst Stephanie LaCava j. walsh K 🕸🐬 sam//Kriss Whitney Mallett, Sianne Ngai & more!

New podcast alert: Constance Debré & Alice Blackhurst discuss *Playboy*: lrb.me/cdeb

5 Feb: a rare UK appearance from US poet Ariana Reines. She'll be reading from her latest collection WAVE OF BLOOD and in conversation with critic Alice Blackhurst Book now: lrb.me/q13

Wrote on Chantal Akerman for ArtReview_