The Bluestocking
Helen Lewis, Katie HerzogI read the internet, so you don’t have to.
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What I Read in August 2026
This month, I juiced my stats by banging through two Miss Marples in a weekend. I also started George Packer’s The Unwinding when I was on the road in the Midwest, and was loving it—his portrait of the young Newt Gingrich was majestic—but g...
431: Russ Abbot, cooked polls, Goodbye Dolly
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On a special bonus episode of Page 94, we recommended our favourite books about journalism (after a tussle over who got to do Towards The End of the Morning).
I also wrote about the odd post-truth moment following Jason Ard...
430: South Pacific, ordinary abundance, big houses
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There are so many interesting looking books being published this autumn that I am seriously worried there are now more people writing nonfiction than reading it. (On which note, The Genius Myth is still 99p on Kindle for anot...
429: Catching predators, leaving academia
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The first bit of my reporting from the Midwest went up this week—looking at why Francesca Hong did not manage to become the most high profile socialist candidate in the midterms (gift link). Somehow I managed to resist a riff...
428: Midwest data centers and homegrown fantasists
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And hello from the Midwest, where I’ve been out reporting for a story that should be published next week. I’ve been following the two big electoral races here—Abdul El-Sayed’s run for Michigan Senate, and Francesca Hong’s bid...
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