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Iain Banks.
By Helen Lewis - 20 June 11:17

Remembering Iain Banks, an intensely political writer.

Melanie Phillips appearing on BBC Question Time.
By Helen Lewis - 19 June 11:05

A fascinating psychological portrait of a woman who seems to feel most alive when under fire.

A Little Sister in BioShock.
By Helen Lewis - 11 June 11:37

Anita Sarkeesian's call for more female protagonists in videogames attracted the standard level of vitriol. Here is why that's an important issue.

A hockey player takes a bathroom break. Photo: Getty
By Helen Lewis - 05 June 10:54

Somehow I don’t think I’ll get many takers for my next Faeces Are A Feminist Issue rally.

Sarah Silverman, author of several funny rape jokes. Photo: Getty
By Helen Lewis - 05 June 9:58

When Lindy West says that bad rape jokes are the last refuge of the lazy, unfunny comedian, threatening to rape her is not the most convincing way to demolish her argument.

The Invisible Men Project.
By Helen Lewis - 10 May 12:32

The Invisible Men Project aims to reveal what men who visit sex workers think about the women involved.

Luisa, a 40-year-old nanny, photographed by Lina Bertucci.
By Helen Lewis - 24 April 12:58

Meet the unconventional art historians trying to discover what it means for an image to be marked on the body.

The Wizard of Oz. Photo: Getty
By Helen Lewis - 12 April 9:50

I have five thoughts on the row about the BBC playing an anti-Thatcher song.

Meera Syal
By Helen Lewis - 08 April 13:48

Woman’s hour.

Vicky Pryce in a police van after being sentenced. Photograph: Getty Images
By Helen Lewis - 21 March 9:02

Also: how many journalists does it take to watch some smoke change colour?

Lara Croft in the 1990s.
By Helen Lewis - 05 March 12:32

Games journalism has come on a lot in a little over a decade.

Photo: Flickr/Sk8geek, used under Creative Commons
By Helen Lewis - 25 February 17:37

Whistleblowers are often incredibly badly treated - even when they have sheaves of documents to prove wrongdoing. Imagine being a whistleblower when you know that half your listeners don't think that being patted on the leg sounds like such a big deal, anyway.

Reeva Steenkamp. Photo: Getty Images
By Helen Lewis - 15 February 12:45

Tasteless photos of the woman found dead at the home of Oscar Pistorius.

Mary Beard on Question Time. Photo: Getty
By Cath Elliott - 27 January 12:42

DSMO, the website that abused Mary Beard, did far more than host threads dedicated to obscenity and offence. Its users took delight in bullying and harrassing their victims.

The YSL 2013 F/W men's fashion show. Photo: Getty
By Helen Lewis - 21 January 15:37

Male models at Hedi Slimane's show for Yves Saint Laurent looked ill, tired - and unhealthily skinny.

Take your phone in the shower. But keep your towel on. Photo: Getty
By Helen Lewis - 10 January 14:42

Because nothing makes you interested in tech products like oiled buttocks. That's, like, science.

An ice-cream van. Photo: Getty
By Helen Lewis - 10 January 11:29

Anne H Putnam's memoir about obesity reviewed.

Dys4ia, the game.
By Helen Lewis - 31 December 13:44

Games as ballet, a playwright on the medium, and (sorry) me talking about ladies, again.

Anita Sarkeesian.
By Helen Lewis - 07 December 11:52

How internet communities encourage bad behaviour online.

Jonathan Blow's Braid.
By Helen Lewis - 06 December 12:33

All the best reading, digested.

Grace Coddington, left, with Anna Wintour. Photo: Getty
By Helen Lewis - 06 December 8:25

Grace Coddington's memoir is neither brutally honest nor amusingly bonkers. Thank God for the cat psychic.

Xcom. Courtesy Flickr/JBLivin
By Helen Lewis - 06 December 8:04

What makes you care about a videogame character? Clue: it's not ladles of expository dialogue.

The Japanese videogame Catherine.
By Helen Lewis - 03 December 15:19

Brendan Keogh cuts through the dross to uncover the best writing about games anywhere on the internet.

Journey, for the PlayStation 3.
By Helen Lewis - 28 November 11:02

Videogame writer Ed Stern argues that "video games as a medium are not going to gain cultural legitimacy or worth through the attention of critics or theorists - it's going to be because the games are good".

A still from Far Cry 3.
By Helen Lewis - 22 November 18:47

"How the world reacts to your character tells you who you are," says Jeffrey Yolahem.

The Discworld, travelling through space on the back of Great A'Tuin
By Helen Lewis - 21 November 10:43

“There’s no justice. There’s just us.”

A still from Dishonored.
By Helen Lewis - 20 November 12:58

In the past 30 years, video games have become more beautiful, more intricate and more intense - but we still lack a critical language to evaluate them. Will we ever move beyond previews and reviews?

Charlie Brooker arriving at the Baftas this year.
By Helen Lewis - 15 November 10:15

“I mean, what is the point of me? I don’t really know.”

Grand Theft Auto V: the new trailer.
By Helen Lewis - 14 November 18:28

The new Rockstar game comes out in the second quarter of next year.

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