Vashti Bunyan fled the 1960s music business to roam Britain on a horse and cart, leaving behind an album of such intense beauty that it became an international cult hit 30 years later. Sylvia Patterson welcomes back folk’s most talented absentee

Godard’s haters rub it in and run away, writes Victor Eaves

Sifting through a new history of the Hollywood blacklists Kenneth Wright recalls a time of violence and treachery with unintended lessons for today’s film makers

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Photographer Jane Flynn provides a fascinating insight into the lives of the Mennonites of Southern Illinois

Alistair Braidwood enjoys exquisite storytelling from a self-effacing writer who covered every major music event of the last 40 years

A short story by Frank Rennie, inspired by Alison McGill’s painting ‘Coastal Aerial View’.

John Carney’s feelgood tale of an ’80s Dublin school band is note perfect, writes Nathanael Smith

Chris Harvie implores sleepy Scotland to wake up and grasp every opportunity

Ahead of two Scottish dates, velvet-voiced soul singer Denise Johnson talks to Neil Coooper about her new album of acoustic covers of Manchester bands

A short story of lust and longing in the Old Town, by Lisa Locascio

A new poem by Stuart A. Paterson