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Rethinking Alasdair Gray: A cultural, literary and feminist legacy
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (981+ words) Alasdair Gray never wanted to present himself as a lonesome artist. His collaborative relationships with fellow writers like Agnes Owens helped expand the Scottish literary canon. Now, The Alasdair Gray Archive is continuing that legacy, and Scottish culture is all…...
Author Julian Barnes bids us a powerful farewell, says Neil Mackay
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (1027+ words) In what he says is his final novel, Departure(S), Julian Barnes is at his playful and brilliant best, says our Writer at Large Neil Mackay JULIAN Barnes approaches fiction like a crab stealing up on its prey: sideways. The style…...
Review: Quite Ugly One Evening by Chris Brookmyre: A welcome return
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (811+ words) If Quite Ugly One Morning was an angry book, its successor is downright furious The Herald Review: Quite Ugly One Evening by Chris Brookmyre: A welcome return Quite Ugly One Evening, Chris Brookmyre, (Abacus, £22) It’s been 30 years since Chris Brookmyre’s…...
Review: A Violent Masterpiece by Jordan Harper
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1026+ words) As a critic, I love being proved wrong. I try to approach each book objectively, but sometimes it’s difficult to suppress the desire to judge early and fast. I picked up A Violent Masterpiece by Jordan Harper and couldn’t help…...
Review: Raveheart by Graeme Armstrong: From Airdrie to dystopia
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (1013+ words) Armstrong’s fellow Scots AL Kennedy, Jenni Fagan, Andrew O’Hagan and the late, great Iain Banks. Quite what...
10 books everyone will be talking about this autumn from Rachel Cusk to Val McDermid
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (255+ words) Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa (Image: Getty) Chatto & Windus, £18.99 Ukrainian Lessons: Art in a Time of War (Image: Jonathan Cape) Arts journalist and classicist, Charlotte Higgins first visited Ukraine in 2022, a few months into the war, and has since returned…...
Author Gabriella Bennett on feeling like an outsider in Scotland
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (1819+ words) At around 10.40am my mobile pings. A text message. “I am somehow lost in Glenrothes, but won’t be long!! Gabriella.” It’s a Thursday morning in July and Bennett is lost in Glenrothes and lost to Glenrothes, perhaps. For a long time,…...
Finally, recognition for 'unfairly neglected' Scottish author Agnes Owens
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (1107+ words) Writer Agnes Owens was once seen as “part of a golden age of Scottish literature,” and influenced younger writers, including Janice Galloway, Douglas Stuart and Damian Barr. But she was never accorded the respect given to her male peers, and…...
Why everything feels broken: Three books that make sense of modern chaos
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1076+ words) The tragedy of my generation is that we were raised in a period when news and analysis moved slowly enough for even those who didn’t stay across current affairs to have a fairly good understanding of important events. I recall,…...
Kirsty Lockwood’s debut thriller is so gripping I ditched the Scottish Cup final
3+ mon, 21+ min ago (873+ words) I’m not a literary critic and so I’ll say only this: that I can hardly recall any previous time when a book, a first-timer at that, has demanded to be finished so urgently. Only Liam McIlvanney’s The Good Father comes…...