The Sexy Lamp problem revisited:

Isabelle Stroud salutes the comic creators fashioning a new wave of female characters

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No vacancies:

Part 2. By Heather Pearson

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Twilight:

A poem by Fiona Ritchie Walker

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Eleanor Buffam:

Cyanotypes by Eleanor Buffam

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The Carry Out:

A true story by Carolyn Roberts

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Letter to the editor:

By Phil Wilson

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On film:

By Gerry Stewart 

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Art
Here Comes Everybody:

A strangely beguiling collection by kennardphillipps, aka London artists Peter Kennard and Cat Phillipps.

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Books
Word up:

The Broken Pane, Charlie Roy’s harrowing but uplifting debut examines loss, tragedy and our relationship with the past. Here she discusses creative process and how she grew from wistful scribbler to published author

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Collaborations
Coastal Aerial View by Alison McGill, Oil and wax on board
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 20th birthday Toy Story! Nathanael Smith on the movie which changed animation forever

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Ideas
Carbon no more:

It’s time to stop indulging Big Oil and shift to a clean energy economy, writes Patrick Harvie

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Music
Gimme some truth:

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

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New Writing
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Ardnamurchan Hotel:

By Tony Garner

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Poetry
Epochal:

A poem by Stuart A. Paterson

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