Alix Beeston

Alix Beeston is an Australian academic and writer currently based in Wales. She is Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff University and the author of In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen(Oxford University Press, 2018) and the digital project Object Women: A History of Women in Photography. She tweets at @alixbeeston.

All essays by Alix Beeston

Review: Alix Beestonon Anwen Crawford
  • No Document by Anwen Crawford Giramondo
    160pp
    Published April 2021
    ISBN 9781925818611

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 to, or become bound up with, experiences of vulnerability, pain, and mortality.

May. 2021 • •
Review: Alix Beestonon Ellena Savage
  • Blueberries by Ellena Savage Text Publishing/Scribe UK
    256pp
    Published March,2020
    ISBN 9781922268563

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 vision, the intricacy of her argumentation, the richness of her sources, the cultivation of her contradictory style, pitched between brashness and eloquence, and the pleasures of her experimentation: Blueberries testifies against its author.
Jun. 2020 • • • •