Scotland
14th January 2026
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
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
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?
6th August 2025
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.
12th January 2025
It sometimes seems that never enough has been made of Scotland's presence - the Scottish Pavilion - at the Venice Biennale. The 2023 architecture exhibition (- hopefully not the last Scottish one ever, as 2024 was cancelled) was an exploration of the connection between architecture and language on a traumatised land. A Fragile Correspondence was curated by Architecture Fringe, -ism Magazine and /other, and is now showing at the V&A in Dundee. Johnny Rodger reviews.
13th December 2024
Scottish artist Maud Sulter (1960-2008) worked in multi-media as a photographer, filmmaker, poet, playwright and visual artist. Born of Scottish and Ghanaian parentage, she was raised in the Gorbals in Glasgow by her Scottish mother, and much of her work - including that now on show at the Tramway - is an exploration of of her sexuality, gender and identity as a black woman. Federica Giardino reviews the show and ponders on the cultural richness and the 'poignant questions' her work highlights.
8th November 2024
An essay from 'Concrete Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Cumbernauld Town Centre' - a limited edition art book that documents and explores Cumbernauld Town Centre and its imminent demolition through the eyes of its residents, past and present. During their 18-month-long research project, the award-winning artists of Recollective - Alison Irvine, Chris Leslie and Mitch Miller - gained exclusive behind-the-scenes access to Cumbernauld New Town’s iconic Town Centre.
11th March 2024
As Emma Stone picks up an Oscar for Best Actress in Yorgos Lanthimos' film of Alasdair Gray's novel Poor Things, people are dancing in the streets of Glasgow! David Archibald reviews a film that coulda, shoulda, woulda...
21st February 2024
A history of seventy years of popular music in Scotland by Simon Frith, Martin Cloonan and John Williamson is fascinating and comprehensive in its introduction to the story , writes Sheena Macdonald in review.