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Lucy Scholes
Lucy Scholes is a writer and critic. Her work has appeared in the Financial Times, the Observer, BBC Culture, the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times Book Review, Literary Hub and elsewhere.

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Akwaeke Emezi’s 
Freshwater 

Book Review

February 2019

Lucy Scholes

Book Review

February 2019

Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater isn’t only a fine debut novel that announces the arrival of an exciting and talented new literary voice, it’s also a book that...
Jesmyn Ward's ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing'

Book Review

November 2017

Lucy Scholes

Book Review

November 2017

Jesmyn Ward’s third novel returns to the same setting that served her so well in both her debut Where the Line Bleeds (2008) and the...

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poetry

December 2016

Of all those pasts

Will Harris

poetry

December 2016

  In Derrida’s Memoires: For Paul de Man he quotes from ‘Mnemosyne’, a poem by Friedrich Hölderlin which he...

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May 2014

The Quick Time Event

David Auerbach

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May 2014

The ability of computers to semantically understand the world – and the humans in it – is next to...

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September 2012

Negation: A Response to Lars Iyer's 'Nude in Your Hot Tub'

Scott Esposito

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September 2012

I do not know whether I have anything to say, I know that I am saying nothing; I do...

 

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