Lola Seaton
Lola Seaton is an associate editor at New Left Review and a contributing writer at the New Statesman.
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Who is criticism for?
Seth Rogen’s protest against bad reviews misunderstands the role of the critic in the fight against mediocrity.
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Adam Gopnik’s pursuit of the perfect sentence
The New Yorker journalist’s latest book, The Real Work, sheds light on a career spent obsessively attempting to master…
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The Light We Carry: Michelle Obama’s self-help slogans
In converting her life story into self-empowering bromides, the former first lady has exposed the limits of her politics.
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The lessons of Corbynism
In their new books, Andrew Murray and James Schneider ask what the left can learn from its time in…
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Reviewed in short: New books from Geoff Mulgan, CJ Hauser, Matt Rowland Hill and Hans Fallada
Another World Is Possible by Mulgan, The Crane Wife by Hauser, Original Sins by Rowland Hill and Lilly and…
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Why I haven’t been watching the 2022 Women’s Euros
I was a devoted footballer as a child, often the only girl on the team. So why can’t I…
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Édouard Louis: “I dream of a world without politics”
The French literary celebrity on shame, autobiography and why his family abandoned the far right.
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Reviewed in short: New books from Sophie Pavelle, Brendan Simms and Steven McGregor, Ana Kinsella and Gerald Murnane
Forget Me Not by Pavelle, The Silver Waterfall by Simms and McGregor, Look Here by Kinsella and Last Letter…
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