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The Tryst
By Hannah Sutherland
Read MoreThe Maids
@Dundee Rep. By Neil Cooper
Read MoreA season in Hull
Invention, defiance and solidarity lit up Neu! Reekie!’s Where Are We Now? festival foray to the Hull City of Culture, writes Neil Cooper
Read MoreOver the rainbow
Love Song to Lavender Menace, Royal Lyceum, then touring. Review by Neil Cooper
Read MoreMozart vs Machine
Sound Festival @ Lemon Tree, Aberdeen. November 11. Review by Neil Cooper
Read MoreTake 5
Kirsten Adamson chooses her favourite songs. By Hugo Fluendy
Read MoreShadow of Spheres
Photographer Yaz Norris explores the world of light and shadow.
Read MoreNight on the moor
A short story by D.B. MacInnes
Read MoreJah Wobble
Jah Wobble & Invaders of the Heart @Bongo Club, Edinburgh
April 26. By Neil Cooper
Candy Opera
As Candy Opera release their debut album after 35 years in the wilderness, Neil Cooper talks about life in the 1980s with Liverpool’s great lost band
Read MoreTake Five
Vic Galloway chooses his favourite songs. By Hugo Fluendy
Read MoreTake 5
Paul Vickers chooses his favourite songs. By Hugo Fluendy
Read MoreSimply thrilled honey
From “Falling and Laughing” to “Dilemma” Alistair Braidwood delights in the music of Edwyn Collins
Read MoreHow I write
By puppeteer and children’s author Tania Czajka
Read MoreTake 5
Andrew Loog Oldham chooses the songs that influenced him By Hugo Fluendy
Read MoreWanda vision
As Disney’s madcap subversion of the sitcom reaches its finale, Stephanie Provan salutes an all consuming epic
Read MoreLost Ghosts
Janeanne Gilchrist journeys into the deep with ethereal, otherworldly images captured beneath the waves
Read MoreWanda Vision
Stephanie Provan on Disney’s classy subversion of the sitcom
Read MoreBuffalo stance
The End of the Game has been picked up by BBC World, injecting more irony into this fascinating portrait of an ageing hunter out to bag his final trophy, writes Hugo Fluendy
Read MoreHitting the target and missing the point
Under 7s learn best and enjoy better life chances when they’re free to play, writes Sue Palmer
Read MoreFree, floating
Glasgow-based artist and filmmaker Rachel Nolan uses photography to abstract the mundane.
Read MoreOutside in
A short story by Shirley Gillan
Read MoreTake 5
Jill O’Sullivan chooses the songs that influenced her
Read MoreYoung enough to remember
By Kristoffer McKeown
Read MoreTake five
Cloth guitarist Paul Swinton on the songs that influenced him
Read MoreDecades
Joy Division were on the cusp of mainstream success forty years ago. Neil Cooper looks at how they conquered the world
Read MoreVinyl for food banks
Your old records gathering dust could help those most in need
Read MoreCocaine for the kids
Katherine Hill’s timely book offers parents practical advice to help children negotiate the digital world, writes Alex Borthwick
Read MoreMaking the case for the retention of chickens
A short story by MD Hamilton
Read MoreDark horse
As Bojack Horseman heads for the knackers’ yard, Stephanie Provan salutes the show’s defiant demands on its audience
Read MoreHistory Maker
Alistair Braidwood who worked as a secretary for Alasdair Gray, and was an editor on ‘Of Me & Others’, pays tribute to a brilliant, kind and peerless polymath
Read MoreBooks of 2019
Alan McCredie on a truly timeless classic
Read MoreBooks of 2019
Petra Reid on a radical ’60s classic still relevant today
Read MorePicture this
Hollywood still uses women as adornments, but 2019 saw a raft of believable female characters light up our screens, writes Stephanie Provan
Read MoreAll of this and nothing
Sarah Busby on innocence, idealism and her first love: the Psychedelic Furs
Read MoreDe Palma
A new documentary examines the work of one of the most influential players in modern US cinema, writes Robert Gallacher
Read MoreThis Life
Jamie Robson on how he grew from bumbling teen to film lead. Interview by Patrick Small
Read MoreThe Clamour
A short story by Kirsti Wishart
Read MoreBest of EIFF
Victor Eaves surveys the festival’s short film strand
Read MoreBest of EIFF
Victor Eaves surveys the festival’s finest shorts
Read MoreBest of EIFF
Victor Eaves surveys the festival’s short film strand
Read MoreNothing ever goes to plan
Review by Victor Eaves
Read More(G)if
A poem by Anna Blainey, inspired by Rudyard Kipling
Read MoreHope and despair
The highly lauded Nell Zink is one of many US writers considering the challenges of activism today, but her work lacks one vital element, writes Sibylla Kalid
Read MoreFire Escape in the sky
Did a percipient Scouse maverick secure Scott Walker’s place in pop history? asks Neil Cooper
Read MoreIdiot Wind
A former UK ambassador to the EU lays out the clusterfuck that follows a retreat from reality, writes Ronnie McCluskey
Read MoreYou are the product
Shoshana Zuboff’s treatise “Surveillance Capitalism” warns how big data commodifies us all, writes Nik Williams
Read MoreSoldier -Talk
Neil Cooper unearths The Red Crayola’s great lost album and post-punk’s missing link
Read MoreCheckmate Savage
The Phantom Band’s genre defying debut is as thrilling as the day it was released in 2009, writes Neil Cooper
Read MoreThe Sheets
A poem by Cara L McKee
Read MoreAltered image
Sceptical of the form, Sara Lally is won over by three of 2018’s most intriguing graphic novels
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Lost girls
Author Mick Kitson tells Sibylla Archdale Khalid how he conjured Sal, one of the most compelling literary characters of 2018
Read MoreRip it up
Scotland has a richly diverse and inventive musical history from Lonnie Donegan to Young Fathers. Test your Scottish pop knowledge in our quiz
Read MoreA ripple from the storm
Brilliant and uncompromising, Doris Lessing inspired Amy Jardine to conquer fear, start writing and live a fuller life
Read MoreWorld Book Trip
If you could only recommend one novel from your country, which would it be? Ana Iliescu salutes Mircea Cartarescu’s Orbitor, a triumph of Romanian literature
Read MoreAnother News Story
A moving documentary turns the camera on itself to examine the relationship between corporate media and the human tragedy on which it feeds. By Tamara Abdi
Read MoreRusty West
A poem by Jamie Robson
Read MoreRedoubtable
Godard’s haters rub it in and run away, writes Victor Eaves
Read MoreLolita’s secret codes
Stanley Kubrick didn’t cram all his conspiracy theories into The Shining, writes Victor Eaves
Read MoreWe love you
In the first of a series of letters to artists who inspired them, author Kirsty Logan salutes singer Kathleen Hanna.
Read MoreThe coming of the Techni-Quarks
A new poem by Stuart A. Paterson
Read MoreForever now
David Hare believes Netflix and Amazon have ushered in another golden age for screen writers. By Victor Eaves
Read MoreI Have Fallen In Love With The Forth Bridge
A poem by Keith Armstrong
Read MoreMeeting Jim
A new documentary about a key character in the story of the Edinburgh Festival gets lost in plodding self-importance, writes Victor Eaves
Read MoreStill waters
Daisy Johnson talks to Naomi Richards about the power of myths, metamorphis and the art of writing her new novel.
Read MoreOver the wall
Victor Eaves on a moving documentary about the Israeli Palestinian conflict
Read MoreBlind vision
Is HyperNormalisation journalism or entertainment? Sibylla Kalid sifts through the arguments
Read MoreDown the rabbit hole
Live action updates of Disney classics are a pale imitation of the originals, and only one shall go the ball, writes Nathanael Smith
Read MoreTesting times
Against international evidence about its negative effect, the Scottish government has introduced testing throughout the education system, beginning at Primary 1. Sue Palmer sets ministers their own test
Read MoreMister Malcontent
Bill Hicks has been derided as an anti-corporate fanatic, UFO devotee and gun fetishist. But what he would really have hated is being described as the lost saviour of stand-up, writes Allan Brown
Read MoreWild Devotion
Jade Starmore, a photographer and textile designer from the Hebrides, creates wearable art inspired by the Scottish landscape
Read MoreThe end of the habitable world
A short story by Tracey Emerson
Read MoreGame, set and match
An appreciation of the 1969 film The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Alistair Braidwood
Read MoreShe Punks
Sam Knee talks to Neil Cooper about Untypical Girls, his new book about pioneering all-female bands from post punk to riot grrrl
Read MoreJohnny Cash’s stepdaughter gave me a kiss
A new short story by Naomi Richards
Read MoreDenise Johnson
Ahead of two Scottish dates, velvet-voiced soul singer Denise Johnson talks to Neil Coooper about her new album of acoustic covers of Manchester bands
Read MoreSilent Spring
Set in a near-future Earth devastated by global warming, The Book of Joan is a rare attempt to deal with a colossal issue. Sybilla Archdale Kalid on why climate change can’t be contained in modern literature
Read MoreThe Divided Self
Artist Sekai Machache explores ideas of identity and self.
Read MoreHip priest
Neil Cooper on four decades of the contrary, belligerent and brilliant Mark E Smith
Read MoreLux Lives!
Nine years since he left the party, an exuberant annual celebration of the Cramps’ colourful frontman is still in full swing, writes Paul Robinson
Read MoreA big big love
They may be ambivalent to one another, but the Pixies’ music is still adored as the documentary charting their reunion reveals. By Alastair McKay
Read MoreAdventures close to home
Alistair Braidwood talks to Viv Albertine, legendary guitarist with pioneering all-girl group the Slits.
Read MoreThose to whom evil is done
Chris Harvie on warnings from history and the shitstorm to come
Read MoreDance away
Jannica Honey met strippers on their way to and from work in their dressing room
Read MoreBdy-Prts
@Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh.
December 2nd. By Neil Cooper
Faust
@Summerhall, Edinburgh. November 29. By Neil Cooper
Read MoreHistory repeats
Did the former Stoke MP lift sections of a long ago OU book for his 2004 historical tome? One of the original authors Chris Harvie finds it oddly familiar
Read MorePussy Riot
Pussy Riot Theatre: Riot Days. @Glasgow Art School. Nov 21. Review by Neil Cooper
Read MoreI Sing The Body Electric
Jola Sopek’s intimate portraits of everyday life elevate the banal into something beautiful and infinite
Read MoreHigh Times
The creators of Britain’s first counter cultural paper talk to Neil Cooper about their new visual catalogue of the ’60s radical underground press
Read MoreWire
@Mash House, Edinburgh. Monday November 6. Review by Neil Cooper
Read MorePassion play
Author Malcolm Devlin discusses fairy tales, genre-jumping and placating restless stories with Naomi Richards
Read MoreBeyond Rock and Roll
Neil Cooper on the tireless invention of post punk visionary Vic Godard
Read MoreMichael Head and the Red Elastic Band
@Oran Mor, Glasgow. October 5. By Neil Cooper
Read MoreSing choirs of angels
Communal singing is uplifting and radical, veteran post punk Boff Whalley tells Neil Cooper
Read MoreRoom 29
@King’s Theatre, Edinburgh. August 24. By Neil Cooper
Read MoreJenny Hval
@ Summerhall. August 20th. Review by Neil Cooper
Read MoreLive review
Very Cellular Songs – The Music of The Incredible String Band. Playhouse, Edinburgh. By Neil Cooper
Read MoreSpeed of life
Alistair Braidwood is charmed by a book of recollections from Bowie fans and collaborators
Read MoreLive review
PJ Harvey: The Hope Six Demolition Project. Playhouse, Edinburgh. By Neil Cooper
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