Lola Seaton
@lola_seaton
Associate editor @NewLeftReview Contributing writer @NewStatesman Other writing @NYBooks @LRB @the_point_mag
My – ambivalent but ultimately fond – review of Sally Rooney's new novel, in which something is lost and something gained @NewStatesman @FaberBooks newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
a 'cohesive' capitalism sounds even scarier
🆕 Thanks to a gift from @OpenSociety, LSE is launching a major new initiative on the political economy of ‘cohesive capitalism’. Housed in @STICERD_LSE within @LSEEcon, the programme will bring together LSE’s world-class thinkers #ShapingTheWorld ow.ly/N2je50Qq2cx
It’s finally here. We will build our party together. But into what, how and for what purpose? I discussed that all with @Oliver_Eagleton. newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…
I wrote about Sheila Heti for @nybooks nybooks.com/articles/2025/…
For @NewStatesman I wrote about Notes to John, Joan Didion's unpolished but undeniably interesting record of sessions with a psychiatrist in 1999-2002, found near her desk when she died newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
Here’s my somewhat lengthy but cameo-strewn @NewLeftReview SCar piece on Bob Dylan from 61-66—his aesthetic priorities + personal obsessions, plus why he’d have hated online dating, via the fun if limited A Complete Unknown (h/t @mrianleslie @lola_seaton) newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…
"Attacking neoliberalism for its official aversion to government intervention has limited political traction in an age when public institutions are so deeply intertwined with the escalating concentration of private wealth." newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…
fantastic piece on the Irish novelist Sally Rooney via her new book Intermezzo (def the best I've read so far)
“Intermezzo is a less distinctive, less sui generis novel than what came before, closer to something that someone else might have written.” 🖊️ @lola_seaton newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
This is an amazing piece which it feels like no one else in the world could have written
Here from the new @bookforum summer issue is my somewhat lengthy engagement with the adventurous and erudite British writer Hari Kunzru, whose books I greatly enjoyed and admired with one exception, w. bits on Challengers, Gatsby, Deleuze, Warwick, Wired bookforum.com/fiction/bizarr…
For @NewLeftReview, I wrote about Yoko Tawada’s “Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…
On Martin Amis’s memorial and language as a source of joy newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
For the latest @NewLeftReview I wrote about Anne Carson and ten things you can do to avoid boredom (jk...sort of) newleftreview.org/issues/ii146/a…
For @NewStatesman I reviewed Lauren Oyler’s new essay collection No Judgement, and reflected on the fun, as well as, sometimes, the frustration, of self-awareness in writing (by which I mean the performance of self-awareness) newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
For @LRB I wrote about the novels of AK Blakemore lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…
I would hate to be someone who receives hundreds of emails a day. Hope that never happens to me
Fab essay by @lola_seaton on the 50th anniversary of Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark in the @NewStatesman. ‘It’s music that lines your heart’. newstatesman.com/culture/music/…
"The sound of someone thinking and feeling aloud, Mitchell’s profoundly moving songs – across her body of work – show you that you are sadder than you realised but also at times happier than you might like to think." Marvellous appreciation of Court & Spark, from @lola_seaton…
for the @NewStatesman I wrote something – a paean, inevitably – about Joni Mitchell, the absolute GOAT (an acronym Mitchell has used), revisiting her exquisite 1974 record Court and Spark (a "perfect album" in Brian Eno's view), released 50 years ago newstatesman.com/culture/music/…
