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‘Imagined Spaces’ by Kirsty Gunn and Gail Low (published by The Voyage Out Press) How do you cut into what Elizabeth Chakrabarty terms ‘the Trojan horse’ of the essay? Whether…
I was at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for a morning recently and I heard just one case. This wasn’t because of any legal complexities, requiring hours of heated debate, stretching beyond…
UPFRONT How the poor live Sketch: Barbara Millar The church hall is in a back street in Leith. It is not so very far – measured in footsteps – from…
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Journalist Bill Jamieson read about the terminal illness of his contemporary and friend, Scottish Review editor Kenneth Roy, when he was ‘in the bleakest of motorway service stations’ en route…
The steam train slowly chugs through the idyllic Kent countryside on its way from Tenterden to the tiny village of Bodiam, 10 miles away. But the heritage station at Bodiam,…
In each edition, a personal selection of things of value: we ask each contributor to nominate their favourite book, film, piece of music, work of art, restaurant or pub, and…
The mutt – Mango – was adorable and in retrospect probably had more political nous than his master. I met Mango back in the 1970s. I was studying at London University…
I’d been scared of flying since my first flight on my first honeymoon in 1977. I guess that might have been a premonition of the disaster which would eventually be…