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

A Dead Cat on Your Table by Peter York

1 week ago | the-tls.co.uk | Robert Bevan |Lenni Sanders |James Cook |Lucy Scholes

To access over 1000 book reviews, essays and more, subscribe here‘Ground zero for the liberal elite’A guide to various culture war types What a peculiar book this is. Peter York, best known for his cod-anthropological examination of British society’s various snobby tribes, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982), has turned his attention to the culture wars.
To Smithereens by Rosalyn Drexler

1 week ago | the-tls.co.uk | Lucy Scholes

Welcome to the TLSTo access over 1000 book reviews, essays and more, subscribe here
The Mermaid Chronicles by Megan Dunn

1 week ago | the-tls.co.uk | James Cook |Lenni Sanders |Lucy Scholes

To access over 1000 book reviews, essays and more, subscribe hereUnderwater portraitsThe elusiveness of professional mermaids“I was staring down the barrel of middle age, and my pockets were empty”, writes Megan Dunn in her illuminating memoir, The Mermaid Chronicles.
The Propagandist — Cécile Desprairies’ novel explores her family’s wartime shame

1 week ago | ft.com | Lucy Scholes

This story opens in an apartment building in Paris’s 17th arrondissement.
this novel grasps real women's lives

3 weeks 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

4 weeks 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

1 month 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

2 months 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

Feb 9, 2025 | 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.