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19th April 2026

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ALL THE COPPER IN PERU by Michael Washburn

A story about contracts and commodities - all too resonant of the contemporary realities of geopolitics and the multinational corporate interests - New York prize-winning novelist and short story-writer, Michael Washburn, details the momentum of a dirty business.

19th April 2026

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From a stage set to setting the stage : the sources and the evolution of motifs in Dali’s early surrealist oeuvre, by Dmitriy Soliterman

A sustained, penetrating and profound study of the forms in Dali's early work and informed deduction and speculation on their provenance by art critic Dmitriy Soliterman.

29th January 2026

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WEALTH OR WASTE : Edinburgh and the Extractive Economy by Malcolm Fraser

Is it safe for modernist architecture to come out yet? It's certainly not safe, from a sustainable point of view, to knock all the modernist buildings down. -No matter what the tourists might want in our 'heritage capitals'. As the Belfast taxi drivers say: 'There's two histories here, ye know.' Malcolm Fraser considers another looming crater in the hollowing out of the city and its potential reconstruction as part of the pretty stage set.

14th January 2026

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PowerShift: the real energy question by Indra Adnan and Pat Kane, Spring Consortium

The Spring Consortium propose powerful cohesive and holisitic steps across the board as THE way to confront locally the daily worsening global polycrisis which faces us in energy, sustainability rising fascism and revived imperialism and climate meltdown. The first big event is SATURDAY JANUARY 18TH at CELTIC CONNECTIONS in Glasgow - Get involved!

14th January 2026

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KILBRYDE: Raymond Burke’s new novel reviewed by Federica Giardino

Raymond Burke's new Bildungsroman about growing up in the new town of East Kilbride outdoes Scott and Gray at the same time: having the scope of both a historical novel and an existential modernist confession - Federica Giardino reviews...

14th January 2026

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PILGRIM SQUINTS: on the Camino de Santiago reviewed by Wattana Songpetchmongkol

Wattana Songpetchmongkol brings his extensive research on walking to bear on Johnny Rodger's new book, and asks why do we walk?.. and ... Is a walk ever entirely your own walk?

16th August 2025

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UNSUNG at the British Art Fair by Jessica Wood

Not so much a Salon des Refuses or a Rogues Gallery as the unsung heroes who made the scene what it was? Jessica Wood previews and examines the work in the Unsung exhibition to be held at the British Art Fair 2025, and attempts to understand and rationalise why these artists may have remained outside the limelight.

6th August 2025

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Scotland’s Yesterday – an IRISH Production: Irish Pages reviewed by Owen Dudley Edwards

Scotland's greatest living Irish Historian on an Irish publication of Scottish writers on the state of Scotland. Owen Dudley Edwards casts a critical eye over the recently published Irish Pages Scotland issue.

18th July 2025

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TENDING AN OLIVE TREE by Michael Mersinis

An exploration of the entanglement of art, ecology, and geopolitical violence through the translocation of a Palestinian olive tree sapling to a Scottish gallery space. Drawing on many sources including Aristophanes’ Peace, Michael Mersinis positions the olive tree sapling not as an object of aesthetic contemplation, but as a living, contested agent that disrupts dominant narratives of peace and belonging.