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

A short story by Carolyn Roberts

A poem by Fiona Ritchie Walker

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If you could only recommend one novel from your country, which would it be? Ana Iliescu salutes Mircea Cartarescu’s Orbitor, a triumph of Romanian literature

A story by Shane Johnstone

A moving documentary turns the camera on itself to examine the relationship between corporate media and the human tragedy on which it feeds. By Tamara Abdi

From “Falling and Laughing” to “Dilemma” Alistair Braidwood delights in the music of Edwyn Collins