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Charlotte Higgins

Charlotte Higgins is the Guardian’s chief culture writer

November 2025

  • De Waal in his studio

    Can ceramics be demonic? Edmund de Waal’s obsession with a deeply disturbing Dane

  • A composite image showing postal workers and customers with packages against a background of a damaged former postal office

    Ukraine in depth
    Next day delivery, no weapons allowed: the unstoppable postal service keeping Ukraine going

  • Illustration: Guardian Design

    The Audio Long Read
    Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read – podcast

    Podcast19:57
  • people perform on stage

    Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’

October 2025

  • Rob Jetten amid a crowd of reporters

    Europe live with Jakub Krupa
    D66 has shown the world populists can be beaten, says Jetten, as party is projected to win Dutch election – as it happened

    D66 leader celebrates ‘historic result’ after Netherlands news agency analysis suggests party has most votes and Geert Wilders’ far-right PVV can no longer win
  • Composite image of four millennial women against a yellow background

    Ukraine in depth
    Wives, mothers, fighters, activists: the millennial women keeping Ukraine going

    Born into an independent Ukraine, the lives of these young women changed for ever when Russia invaded their country, forcing them to shoulder huge burdens of responsibility

    • A prophetic 1934 novel has found a surprising second life – it holds lessons for us all

      Charlotte Higgins

    • ‘I need to do everything now’: the Ukrainian combat medic-turned playwright

    • Zelenskyy accuses west of ‘zero real reaction’ to Russia’s bombardment

September 2025

  • A jumbled pile of books with Cyrillic on their spines, the most prominent reading ‘19th century Russian poets’

    Ukraine in depth
    Tainted love: how Ukrainians are ridding themselves of Russian-language books

    Putin’s invasion has seen Ukrainian book lovers recoil from Russian literary dominance, by a range of means

August 2025

  • The British Museum, London. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis? – podcast

    Podcast38:45
  • The visitors of Meridian Kharkiv poetry festival.

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘Poetry pulled me out of the abyss’: keeping culture alive in Kharkiv – picture essay

July 2025

  • Pavlo Makov posing for a portrait at his art studio in Kharkiv.

    ‘You’ll never save the world with art, but it will help you survive’: artist calls on Ukraine to promote its culture

  • In the line of fire … a still from 2,000 Meters to Andriivka.

    ‘The soldiers want you to see what they’re going through’: the heartbreaking follow-up to 20 Days in Mariupol

  • A huge Cubist-style statue of a soldier made of concrete and ridded with bullet holes, seen from below

    The Sunday read
    Inside the ghost museums of Ukraine: exhibits replaced by fragments of war and occupation

  • Women in elaborate, brightly coloured dresses with long flowing hair and dramatic makeup dance at the opening ceremony.

    Shakespeare in war: bard’s ‘existential’ theatre takes hold in Ukraine

May 2025

  • Sacrilege (2012), an interactive public artwork by Jeremy Deller on Glasgow Green. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From acid house to ancient rites: Jeremy Deller’s enormous, collaborative, unsellable art – podcast

    Podcast38:24
  • Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cellist. Photographed at the Barbican. London. Photograph by David Levene 21/4/25

    ‘Music is never fixed in me’ … cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason on surviving a ‘volcano of racism’

April 2025

  • Ralph Fiennes

    Epic win: why the Odyssey is having a moment

  • ‘I was playing the banjo when everyone else was playing the guitar’ … Wright at the Camden Art Centre.

    ‘It’s torture!’ Turner-winning artist Richard Wright on obliterating his painstaking works

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