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  • 3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Joanna Biggs

    6 hours ago"It's simple when you think about, but it totally tricked my brain." Unfortunately, you might not be able to wave a wand and make the world change according to your desires, but there are a ton of "life hacks" that can help you save money, become more efficient, build confidence, and so much more. …

  • 1 month ago | lrb.co.uk | Joanna Biggs

    Awriter​ ‘with whom I feel no affinity’: that’s how Annie Ernaux, the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, described Marguerite Yourcenar, the first woman to be elected to the Académie Française. When the 77-year-old Yourcenar entered the Académie on 22 January 1981, wearing a black velvet double-layer cape designed by Yves Saint Laurent, she looked severe, as if she had spent her life as a nun in service to literature.

  • Dec 3, 2024 | lithub.com | Joanna Biggs

    First, there is her beauty. (Cinema is a visual medium after all.) Her face has angles but they are soft ones; her skin is pale but dusted with freckles. Her lips are full, her eyes sleepy. Her hair is sculpted but it moves. Her hands ruffle and fly. Her back is a whole landscape. Michelangelo Antonioni was drawn to Monica Vitti by the nape of her neck. She had her hair pinned up, dubbing a film, and he was sitting behind her in the studio. “You have a beautiful nape.

  • Sep 20, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Sally Rooney |Joanna Biggs

    ‘Love,’ Alain Badiou wrote, ‘is the minimal form of communism.’ In communism for two or for two billion, the way the gulf between people narrows is of great interest: both scenarios seem to involve mysterious and transformative forces. I remembered Badiou’s formulation when I heard Sally Rooney describe the genesis of her books.

  • May 18, 2024 | nybooks.com | Lauren Kane |Joanna Biggs

    In our May 23 issue, Joanna Biggs reviews Madonna: A Rebel Life by Mary Gabriel (whose previous biography, Ninth Street Women, took as its subject five female abstract expressionist painters in the midcentury).

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