As the veteran post-punks embark on tour, Sarah Busby celebrates the seditious invention of the Furs’ early work

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

Jade Starmore, a photographer and textile designer from the Hebrides, creates wearable art inspired by the Scottish landscape

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In the ‘Edgelands’ project, photographer and illustrator James Sinfield explores the hinterland between urban areas and the ‘proper’ countryside.

Shirley Jackson’s subversive horror story The Lottery remains as pertinent today as when it first appeared seventy years ago, writes Sibylla Kalid

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

Richard Gere’s drama about homelessness makes compelling viewing, writes Robert Gallacher

Graham Domke on why Inverleith House must be saved

Neil Cooper on a remarkable musical elegy to those lost in the Lockerbie tragedy

A new short story by Heather Pearson

A new poem by Stuart A. Paterson