Donne, I suppose, was such another Who found no substitute for sense, To seize and clutch and penetrate; Expert beyond experience… T S Eliot, in ‘Whispers of immortality’, paid tribute…
24 February 2016 Home Subscribe Free Become a Friend Does Magnus Linklater run his Lockerbie articles through reverse fact-checking software before submitting them? How else I wonder could almost every…
Launching today: a monthly ebook bringing together a pick of articles from the Scottish Review. Read online, download to your tablet, or print off and take it to bed (or…
‘Without Quarter, A Biography of Tom Johnston’ by Russell Galbraith (Birlinn) Originally published in 1995 by Mainstream Publishing, this new edition contains prefaces by Gordon Brown and Nicola Sturgeon, both…
‘Frolics in the Face of Europe, Sir Walter Scott, Continental Travel and the Tradition of the Grand Tour’, by Iain Gordon Brown (published by Fonthill) A quotation from a letter…
‘A Friendship in Letters, Robert Louis Stevenson & J M Barrie’, edited by Michael Shaw (published by Sandstone Press, Inverness) Researching in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in…
‘Literature and Union, Scottish Texts, British Contexts,’ edited by Gerard Carruthers and Colin Kidd (Oxford University Press) This is something of a cat among the pigeons book. In fact there…
On 18 April 2023, the newly appointed SNP leader and First Minister announced an 11-month delay in the launch of the controversial Deposit Return Scheme (DRS). I must confess that…
‘The Ghost at the Feast: Religion and Scottish Literary Criticism’, edited by Patrick Scott, ‘with an essay and afterword by Crawford Gribben’ (published by ‘Studies in Scottish Literature’) My friend…
‘Shuggie Bain’, by Douglas Stuart (published by Picador) Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, this may well be the bleakest and saddest novel I have ever read. The Booker Prize…