Alex Hanover

Alex Hanover

Alex Hanover is a Monégasque-German writer. Her debut novel is forthcoming.

Biography

Alex Hanover reclining in a pale armchair with a notebook and pen, looking towards the camera, a window and houseplant behind her.

Alex is a contributing writer for Revue Passager, a bilingual literary travel review, and writes an intimate newsletter on Substack about books, art and culture. She holds degrees from New York University and Columbia University, and is fluent in English, French and German. She is drawn to California, gothic literature written by women, and nostalgic narratives of early childhood.

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Selected work

Cover of Passager issue 3, 2026. A person reclining on a blue sofa beside a window, reading, with a street and parked cars visible through the glass.

Siri Hustvedt, Here and There

An interview with the brilliant writer Siri Hustvedt, discussing the connection between memory and imagination, voyages through early childhood impressions and inner landscapes in relation to Hustvedt’s rich body of work.

Photographs Bettina PittalugaPublished in English

Cover of Passager issue 2, 2025. A skier seen from behind in a white knitted beanie and a navy sweater with red and white stripes, looking out across a groomed cross-country track towards snow-covered mountains under a clear sky.

Vorarlberg, the Art of the Solitary Skier

The piece examines familiar landscapes through the exercise of cross-country skiing as the narrator experiences growing pains.

Photographs Félix Dol MaillotPublished in French

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