A true story by Carolyn Roberts

By Naomi Ronner

A short story by Emily Christie

Angus McPake selects his favourite Scottish instrumentals

Flash fiction by Lance Mazmanian 

Suzanne Latre on the healing power of art

Kirsty Whiten has been making distinctive warped paintings and drawings for ten years, earning her a year’s residency in Paris, and exhibitions from Den Haag to Melbourne. Her monkey relics and other twisted drawings have appeared in magazines and on blogs around the world.

www.kirstywhiten.com

The highly lauded Nell Zink is one of many US writers considering the challenges of activism today, but her work lacks one vital element, writes Sibylla Kalid

We publish original art and invite writers to submit stories inspired by the work

Following an explosive documentary about Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez, Alastair McKay picks through impassioned arguments about propaganda, cinema vérité and the ethics of storytelling

Sibylla Kalid discusses ethics with the founder of a campaign to discourage corporations advertising in tabloids which pedal racial prejudice

Mick Harvey, Summerhall, Edinburgh. By Neil Cooper

by Dominic Howell

A poem by Dorothy Alexander