The Bluestocking
Helen LewisI read the internet, so you don’t have to.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 492 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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What I Read in October 2026
Very poor month over here, reading-wise—Instagram Reels once again ate my book time. I did finish The Great Dictator, started last month, and I would still thoroughly recommend it. There are so many great sentences:
Barbara was a known q...
440: Michael Lewis, parrot racists and Trump’s ballroom
Happy Friday!
I went to see Michael Lewis being interviewed by Elizabeth Day at the Southbank last week, and he said something that has stuck with me since. (Side note: Day’s cosy interviewing style was impressively syrupy; at the end, she...
439: Dodgy polls, Sally Rooney, and Trump’s love of badonkadonk
Happy Friday!
How far can we trust pre-midterm polls? In two US races I covered this summer (for a Michigan Senate seat and for Wisconsin governor) a previously unknown company called Wedgewood released newsmaking polls during the primarie...
438: Good Hangs, Bad LLMs
Happy Friday!
Do YOU remember the 1990s? Then I regret to inform you that the Oasis tour documentary on Disney+ is extremely enjoyable.
Helen
Illustration by Sarah Mazzetti
The Good Hang Economy
If I went back in time and...
437: Frat houses and fragrant wives
Happy Friday!
I’ve just about recovered from my first attempt at hosting a live television program, Sky News Sunday. I now realize that Anchorman is a documentary about the very real problem of how you just have to surrender and read whate...
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Journalism @ The Atlantic | Podcasting @ Page 94 | Book-writing at Jonathan Cape (Difficult Women and The Genius Myth)
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