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Anna Leszkiewicz

Arts Editor

Anna Leszkiewicz is the Arts Editor of The Observer and a writer for the paper on books and arts. Before joining The Observer, she was an editor at the New Statesman. Her writing has also appeared in publications including the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and the Guardian.

Photo of Anna Leszkiewicz

Anna Leszkiewicz

Arts Editor

Anna Leszkiewicz is the Arts Editor of The Observer and a writer for the paper on books and arts. Before joining The Observer, she was an editor at the New Statesman. Her writing has also appeared in publications including the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and the Guardian.

  • Anna Leszkiewicz
    Curtis Sittenfeld: ‘The ICE crackdown is a violation of the law – and of human decency’

    The author of American Wife and Rodham on middle age, ‘women’s fiction’, and protesting against ICE in Minneapolis

    Sat, 28 Feb 2026

  • Anna Leszkiewicz
    Gisèle Pelicot and the language of rape culture

    In her memoir, Pelicot examines the vocabulary of sex and violence in the bedroom, the chatroom and the courtroom

    Sat, 21 Feb 2026

  • Anna Leszkiewicz
    Patricia Lockwood: ‘We’re due a return of weird literature’

    The Booker shortlisted author and 2026 judge on rebuilding literature in the digital age

    Wed, 17 Dec 2025

  • Anna Leszkiewicz
    How Chloe Zhao turned Hamnet into an award-winner

    How dream workshops and ‘tantric polarity play’ helped the director make Hamnet

    Fri, 12 Dec 2025

  • Anna Leszkiewicz
    Cathie Pilkington’s uncanny sculptures

    At the Freud Museum, the artist’s exhibition of witty, surreal curios imagines the mischievous side of Freud’s housekeeper

    Tue, 18 Nov 2025

  • Anna Leszkiewicz
    Patricia Lockwood’s diary of a madwoman

    Will There Ever Be Another You, the novelist’s absurdist dispatch from Covid land, is a wild and singular pleasure

    Sat, 4 Oct 2025

  • Anna Leszkiewicz
    Jean Rhys and the art of not belonging

    A new exhibition attempts to bring to life the mysterious novelist through works in conversation with her books

    Thu, 25 Sept 2025

  • Anna Leszkiewicz
    ‘I was looking for a film that wouldn’t trigger me’

    The Paris-born writer, actor and director on #MeToo, finding the humour in dark experiences and their film debut, Sorry, Baby

    Thu, 21 Aug 2025

  • Anna Leszkiewicz
    Jennifer Dawson’s lost chronicle of a crack-up

    The Ha-Ha, a newly reissued 1961 novel about a young woman’s time in a mental hospital, is startlingly contemporary

    Thu, 24 Jul 2025

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