Helen Lewis is a British journalist who works as a Staff Writer at the Atlantic magazine, based in London. She is a regular on the Private Eye podcast, Page 94, and was the host of the BBC’s Strong Message Here with Armando Iannucci; Kafka vs Orwell with Ian Hislop; and The New Gurus and Helen Lewis Has Left The Chat. Her history of feminism, Difficult Women (2020) was a Sunday Times bestseller, and her new book, The Genius Myth, is out now in the UK and US.

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