Higgins is The Guardian's chief culture writer and a member of its editorial board.[2] Formerly the paper's arts correspondent and classical music editor, she has a particular interest in contemporary music.[3] She began her journalism career at Vogue.[4]
She has published four books, three of which have focused on the ancient world.[5] Her first book was concerned with Ovid, and was entitled Latin Love Lessons (2009). Her second book was It's All Greek To Me (2010), and her third book was Under Another Sky (2013), which was about journeys in Roman Britain. This New Noise: The Extraordinary Birth and Troubled Life of the BBC, a history of the BBC, was published in 2015.[6] Her book Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths was published by Penguin in 2018,[7] and was BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in August 2018.[8]
Higgins has served as a judge for the Art Fund Museums Prize, the Contemporary Art Society award, and the Royal Philharmonic Society awards.[9] She is a frequent contributor to Radio 3 and 4 on the BBC, and she has written for The New Yorker, the New Statesman and Prospect.[4]
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