Jo Livingstone is a British literary critic who publishes primarily in American venues.
[1] They are the former staff writer for culture at The New Republic and one of the eight writers of a letter to the New York Times complaining of anti-trans bias.
As of 2023, they publish the blog The Stopgap with Daniel M. Lavery.
[1] Livingstone wrote cultural criticism for The New Republic between 2017 and 2022.
[4][9] Livingstone received the 2017 Newswomen's Club of New York's Front Page Award for opinion writing[10] and the 2020 National Book Critics' Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.