Joanna Biggs

Joanna Biggs is an editor at the LRB.

In the LRB Archive:

• Diary: The way she is now · 4 April 2019

• The State of... · 6 March 2019

• Plathologies · 5 March 2019

• I’m an intelligence: Sylvia Plath at 86 · 20 December 2018

  • The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Vol. I: 1940-56 edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen Kukil
  • The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Vol. II: 1956-63 edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen Kukil

• She wore Isabel Marant: Literary London · 2 August 2018

  • Crudo by Olivia Laing

• Diary: Abortion in Northern Ireland · 17 August 2017

• In the Green House: ‘Fever Dream’ · 29 June 2017

  • Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell

• Whomph!: Zadie Smith · 1 December 2016

  • Swing Time by Zadie Smith

• Short Cuts: Marguerite Duras · 6 October 2016

• Under Her Buttons: Ottessa Moshfegh · 31 March 2016

  • Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

• I was blind, she a falcon: Elena Ferrante · 10 September 2015

  • The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

• A Day’s Work: Reports from the Workplace · 9 April 2015

• Short Cuts · 18 December 2014

• Short Cuts · 5 December 2013

• Tell me everything: Facebook Feminism · 11 April 2013

  • Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
  • The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network by Katherine Losse

• It could be me: Sheila Heti · 24 January 2013

  • How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti

• It’s she, it’s she, it’s she: Americans in Paris · 2 August 2012

  • Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan
  • As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-80 by Susan Sontag

• Among the Writers: In Beijing · 10 May 2012

• Clytemnestra in Brighton: Rachel Cusk · 22 March 2012

  • Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk

• Lizzy with the Candlestick: P.D. James’s Austen · 5 January 2012

  • Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James

• Who will get legal aid now?: Legal Aid · 20 October 2011

• The Clothed Life: Linda Grant · 31 March 2011

  • We Had It So Good by Linda Grant

• At the Occupation · 16 December 2010

• On Teesside · 21 October 2010

• Keep on nagging: Azar Nafisi · 27 May 2010

  • Things I’ve Been Silent About: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter by Azar Nafisi

• Closely Missed Trains: Florian Zeller’s Hair · 12 March 2009

  • Artificial Snow by Florian Zeller, translated by Sue Rose
  • Elle t’attend by Florian Zeller

• Degoogled: Keith Gessen · 22 May 2008

  • All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen

• Negative Honeymoon: Gwendoline Riley · 16 August 2007

  • Joshua Spassky by Gwendoline Riley

• Nosy-Poky: Two Caravans · 22 March 2007

  • Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka

• Lobsters do not have eyelashes!: Nell Freudenberger · 8 February 2007

  • The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger

• Beware of clues!: geek lit · 21 September 2006

  • Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

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