Mother land:

A short story by Anne Leigh Parrish

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Twilight:

A poem by Fiona Ritchie Walker

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Alistair Braidwood admires this thrilling, thorough take on a golden age of Scottish music

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Sasha:

A short story by Lisa Locascio

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Silk:

A poem by Jesica Malen

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A new poem by Lauren Clarke

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Kirsty Whiten:

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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Books
You are the product:

Shoshana Zuboff’s treatise “Surveillance Capitalism” warns how big data commodifies us all, writes Nik Williams

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The pipeline:

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

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Film
Down the rabbit hole:

Happy Birthday to Fantasia which first graced cinema screens in 1940. Nathanael Smith on a genuinely bravura classic

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The chips and the fury:

Anger over The Glasgow Effect opens up a raft of issues for modern Scotland, writes Neil Cooper

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Fire Escape in the sky:

Did a percipient Scouse maverick secure Scott Walker’s place in pop history? asks Neil Cooper

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Eleven eyes:

A short story by JD Allan

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Was it Shakespeare or Dorothy Parker:

A poem by Ben Mitchell

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