Helen Lewis

Selected journalism, links and contact information from @helenlewis

Miniature CV

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Helen Lewis is deputy editor at the New Statesman, a British left-leaning political magazine. 

As well as commissioning and editing, she writes for the NS magazine and blogs for its website, with favoured topics including comedy, feminism, politics and computer games. She has also written for Edge magazine, British Elle, the New York Times, the Stylist, the Sunday Times, SagaEconomiaSquare Meal and the Guardianand has appeared on the Today programme, Pienaar’s PoliticsWoman’s Hour, BBC Breakfast and The Daily Politics

She has a first class degree in English Language and Literature from Oxford University and an MA (Distinction) in English Literature from the Open University. She was described as a “dedicated gamer” in the Financial Times, which is a nice way of describing what happens when you turn your hobby into a job. 

She tweets @helenlewis and her blog can be found here.

“Will a tattoo ever hang in the Louvre?” 
My longread on the academic study of tattoos.

“Will a tattoo ever hang in the Louvre?” 

My longread on the academic study of tattoos.

Listen: Did the left win the 20th century?

newstatesman:

Did you miss our excellent centenary debate last week? “This house believes the Left won the 20th century” saw Mehdi Hasan, Helen Lewis and Simon Heffer supporting the motion, taking on Tim Montgomerie, Owen Jones and Ruth Porter.

But fear not, we’ve prepared a lovely podcast for your listening pleasure.

Just click here.

There’s no point in your language being ‘correct’ if only 12 of your friends can understand it.

- on the impossibility of aiming for perfection in language.  

newstatesman100:

The New Statesman magazine is one-hundred years old today.
The first issue: 12 April 1913.

newstatesman100:

The New Statesman magazine is one-hundred years old today.

The first issue: 12 April 1913.

I’ve written in the new Elle about being feminine and a feminist; or why it’s terrible to be told you have to live up to arbitrary standards of femininity, and then mocked for doing the homework. 
The piece isn’t online, so you will have to pay ACTUAL MONEY to read it.

I’ve written in the new Elle about being feminine and a feminist; or why it’s terrible to be told you have to live up to arbitrary standards of femininity, and then mocked for doing the homework. 

The piece isn’t online, so you will have to pay ACTUAL MONEY to read it.

Lewis’s Law (coined by journalist Helen Lewis) holds that ‘the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism’.

I genuinely feel that my existence is justified by this Wired piece. 

Of all the great inventions, the front door might be the least appreciated.

For the Guardian, on Facebook’s privacy settings.

Newsnight Review I always wonder about - they played Call Of Duty once and they all just sort of went, “I don’t know why all these people want to run around shooting people in the face when they could be reading Brecht”. I thought that was an incredibly snobby attitude to take. Just because they didn’t understand, they wouldn’t ever go to the opera and say, ‘why are all these people banging on in German all the time?’

Talking to Games Industry International about Games and Acceptance in the Mainstream Media