Emily LaBarge is a writer based in London.

This page, still from The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley, 1989)

Home page, still from Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

My work has appeared in Granta, Artforum, Bookforum, London Review of Books, Frieze, Tate Etc., The White Review, and The Paris Review, among other publications. I am a regular contributor to The New York Times and 4Columns.

I have contributed essays for artist books, exhibitions and monographs, including on the work of Nancy Holt, Etel Adnan, Carolee Schneemann, Margaret Raspé, Prunella Clough, Camille Henrot, Meriem Bennani, Megan Rooney, Tai Shani, and others. I have given talks, lectures and readings at a variety of institutions, including Tate Modern, The Hayward Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, Barbican Gallery, and Kestner Gessellschaft.

I teach on the writing programme at the Royal College of Art.

My first book, Dog Days, a work of non-fiction, was published in the UK by Peninsula Press in October 2025.

I am represented by Harriet Moore at Alexander Aitken Associates.