Alice Blackhurst

Alice Blackhurst is a writer, critic, and the author of Luxury, Sensation and the Moving Image (2021), short-listed for the R Gapper Book Prize. Her essays and criticism have been published in The Paris Review, The Observer, The Guardian, The New Left Review, The Washington Post, The Times Literary Supplement and Art Review and from 2016-2021 she was a Junior Research Fellow in French and Visual Culture at King’s College, Cambridge. In 2024 she published the Foreword to My Cinema, an anthology of Marguerite Duras’s film writings translated by Another Gaze Editions and her current projects include a book about rereading Duras’s 1984 novel The Lover, an account of living organ donation, and a study of contemporary literary and artistic salons.

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