Helen Andrews
@herandrews
@commonplc, formerly @amconmag, author @SentinelBooks, site http://herandrews.com
Buy the book now, there’s no better time than pub day: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617494/b…
Chris Caldwell's review of Paul Elie's "Last Supper" on sex, art, and religion in the 1980s is the rare kind of essay that leaves you wishing that the reviewer had written the book instead. thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-2…
Agents, authors, if you think you have the next Raymond Carver or Richard Ford or Bret Easton Ellis or Donna Tartt or Don DeLillo, we have their editor: airmail.news/issues/2025-7-…
I noticed that very quickly, and I find it a great thing, very different from Latin America
You will not be surprised to learn that @realchrisrufo has always had that hustle. commonplace.org/2025/07/16/are…
For @realchrisrufo, it was washing windows: "'I recruited a friend and we went around the wealthiest neighborhoods in town and pitched our services door-to-door...we were the kings of the summer—and learned how to sell, which is a universal skill.'”
Happy to announce I will be speaking at NatCon 5 in DC in September. Topic: the feminization of culture. Looking forward to seeing everyone there. @NatConTalk NatCon.org

"We've lied to you about how many people we were bringing to Britain and how much we were spending, then gagged anyone who found out about it." I feel like this sort of official state disinformation might be more damaging to public trust in politics than social media posts.
"[Dom] Phillips had just interviewed a local criminal, who likely tipped off others about [his] whereabouts, and they were ambushed. That irony—being killed after doing the work of hearing from all sides—makes the story even more tragic." @luizavmf in @AmerQuarterly: