Alix Beeston

Alix Beeston is an Australian writer and academic currently based in Wales. She is Reader in Literature and Visual Culture at Cardiff University and the author of In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen (Oxford University Press, 2018). She is also the co-editor, with Stefan Solomon, of the award-winning volume Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film (University of California Press, 2023). Follow her on Twitter/X and Instagram at @alixbeeston.

Works By Alix Beeston

One with Another
Sifting through the textual layers of Gail Jones’ most recent novel, Alix Beeston finds not only a revival of modernist techniques in Jones’ unpicking of modernism’s legacy, but also a timely defence of more immersive forms of literary criticism.
16 Oct. 2024
A History of Shapes
Anwen Crawford’s remarkable new work of non-fiction, No Document, is many kinds of document, but one of the ways it can be read is as an attempt to discover a form of writing fit for ephemeral art practices – especially as those practices relate t...
10 May. 2021
Fingers Stained with Fruit and Ink
Savage spends the entire collection telling us she’s playing at being an intellectual – that it’s a ruse, yet another trick – and all the while the book provides an object lesson in the many ways that’s simply not true. The un-small line of her vi...
15 June. 2020

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Alix Beeston

Works By Alix Beeston

One with Another

A History of Shapes

Fingers Stained with Fruit and Ink