Joanna Biggs
Writer and Editor at Freelance
Writer and Deputy Editor at The Yale Review
writer and editor | A LIFE OF ONE'S OWN (out now, @wnbooks & @eccobooks)
Articles
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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.
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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.
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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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May 2, 2024 |
nybooks.com | Joanna Biggs
I was eight, and I wore a black tulle petticoat from Marks and Spencer. Madonna’s Blond Ambition Tour came to London’s Wembley Stadium for three nights in July 1990, after Tokyo, Los Angeles, Paris, and Rome. My mother took me after having spent hours on the phone to get tickets, which had a silvery seal when they came. I still have the stub, as well as the Like a Virgin cassette that was pretty much the only thing I played in my brown Fisher-Price tape recorder.
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Jan 9, 2024 |
harpers.org | Joanna Biggs
When Phyllis Paul died on August 30, 1973, after a motorcycle hit her as she crossed a road in Hastings, England, the authorities had to identify her from the name tag sewn on her handkerchief. Paul had believed that a writer should be known simply for her work, and she had been forgotten once already, for fifteen years, the period between her second and third novels.
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RT @brickliterary: @JoannaBiggs rewatches Monica Vitti in Michelangelo Antonioni's "trilogia dell’incomunicabilità" in Brick 114. Essay fe…
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We are delighted to announce that @JoannaBiggs will join The Yale Review as our deputy editor! She currently serves as a senior editor at Harper’s and previously worked at The London Review of Books for 15 years. We look forward to welcoming Joanna to TYR later this fall! 🎉 https://t.co/ZqYPZZVNtE
I wrote about ✨Madonna✨for the new issue of the @nybooks (sign up for the newsletter to leap over the paywall) https://t.co/jG2qV3knK8