Communal singing is uplifting and radical, veteran post punk Boff Whalley tells Neil Cooper

By Ronnie McCluskey

Is HyperNormalisation journalism or entertainment? Sibylla Kalid sifts through the arguments

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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.

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The rise of tartan noir was a key part of Glasgow’s cultural revival. But our contemporary crime writing betrays a fatal smugness, says Kenneth Wright

This short story by April L Ford was inspired by Hazel Gore’s painting ‘Living Alone in Paradise’. It comes with a trigger warning for rape and sexual assault.

Director Anthony Baxter on the unexpected global appeal of You’ve Been Trumped

Laura Eaton Lewis on how to overcome subtle, recurrent gender bias

Samantha Jones’ second single is a peerless piece of gutsy ’60s melodrama, writes Neil Cooper

A new short story by Nino Ennu

A poem by Maxine Rose Munro