Lucy Scholes

London

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Senior Editor @McNallyEditions | words (usually about books) all over | A DIFFERENT SOUND: STORIES BY MID-CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS out now from @PushkinPress

Articles

this novel grasps real women's lives

6 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Scholes

Cautery is the debut novel by Lucía Lijtmaer - a writer, journalist and cultural critic who was born in Argentina but raised in Barcelona - and also the first of her books (the rest of which have been essays and non-fiction) to be published in English. It begins in its author's adopted city.
The Weight of Their Art | Lucy Scholes

1 week ago | nybooks.com | Lucy Scholes

In the spring of 1942, the thirty-four-year-old artist and designer Tirzah Garwood resolved to start her memoirs. An accomplished wood engraver, illustrator, and maker of patterned papers, she had already produced an impressive body of creative work, but this was the first time she’d attempted a book.
Oba Electroplating Factory | Book review | The TLS

2 weeks ago | the-tls.co.uk | Lucy Scholes

Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
Helen Garner’s diaries — glittering shards of experience

1 month ago | ft.com | Lucy Scholes

Destined, surely, to take her place among the great chroniclers of lived literary experience — Samuel Pepys, Virginia Woolf, Alan Bennett...
An encounter with the phantoms of South Korea’s brutal military past

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Scholes

Lucy Scholes 09 February 2025 1:15pm GMT Since she won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for her novel The Vegetarian (as translated by Deborah Smith), Han Kang’s reputation beyond her native South Korea has been in the ascent. This culminated last year with a Nobel Prize, in light of which there’s been even more excitement than usual around her new book, We Do Not Part. Han’s 2014 novel Human Acts took as its subject the 1980 uprising in Gwangju – during which workers and students were...
Grandmother vs granddaughter – this Irish classic deserves new readers

Jan 19, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Scholes

Having recently reissued collections of Maeve Brennan’s short stories (The Springs of Affection) and non-fiction (The Long-Winded Lady), Peninsula Press have added a third title to their list. Unpublished during the lifetime of the Irish writer and long-time New Yorker staffer – Brennan was born in Dublin in 1917, and died in New York in 1993 – the manuscript of The Visitor was found among her papers after her death.
Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante — an exquisite new translation

Dec 31, 2024 | ft.com | Lucy Scholes

When Elsa Morante’s Lies and Sorcery was published in 1948, the postwar Italian literary landscape was dominated by modernists like Italo...
Fiction Books of the Year: 2024

Dec 25, 2024 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Scholes |Percival L. Everett

This is a haunted house story with a difference. The set-up might sound familiar—a young writer, currently blocked, recently dumped and back in his childhood home having just buried his father—but what happens next is anything but expected.
A group of friends shoot a movie about aliens, to uncanny effect

Dec 11, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Lucy Scholes

Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
Lines of beauty

Dec 3, 2024 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Scholes

Few contemporary novelists are such beautiful prose stylists as Alan Hollinghurst. Fewer still have produced a body of work so unfailingly pleasurable to read. To make these claims is to parrot many of my peers, yet because of the rarity of these achievements among his, I’d say they’re worth reiterating. Our Evenings, Hollinghurst’s latest novel, is no exception.