Essays
16th November 2016
In a timely piece, Nyla Ahmed writes in praise of Ms Marvel, the first major Muslim-American superhero. From The Drouth issue 56:
16th November 2015
From – Issue 53 – Territory I come from an expansive archipelago in South East Asia, where the notion of territory is traditionally elusive. A historian once wrote that before […]
12th September 2015
The Arab revolutions that started in the winter of 2010 have wreaked havoc with political certainties. At the “Festival of Dangerous Ideas” last year, the British-Pakistani intellectual Tariq Ali lamented […]
16th January 2015
Reviewed by Danny Postel I was reluctant to review this book. With all the dramatic events in the Middle East today—the ISIS crisis, the siege of Kobanê, the deepening nightmare […]
8th December 2014
From Issue 50, Winter 2014/15. On 5 September, sitting in Greyfriar’s Kirkyard in Edinburgh, I exercised my right to vote, resting my ballot paper on my knee, as I sat […]
1st May 2014
One aspect of Scottish literature that has been receiving renewed attention is the widespread influence of Scottish writers within other cultures. From its first publication, Jean Toomer’s novel Cane (1923) has been recognized […]
4th February 2013
They stood in front of her mirror, Pamela and Nicola, and behind their reflections was the open window and beyond that, all of Glasgow, it seemed...
2nd October 2010
A typical definition of the concept ‘Artistic License’ would outline the notion that the artist may be perceived as having freedom to distort some aspect of their subject in order to bring attention to, criticise, or satirize it...
‘ENGLAND, YOUR ENGLAND’: GEORGE ORWELL AND BREXIT