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

A poem by Fiona Ritchie Walker

Cyanotypes by Eleanor Buffam

A true story by Carolyn Roberts

By Phil Wilson

By Gerry Stewart 

Bryan M Ferguson is a photographer and filmmaker based in Glasgow.

The rise of tartan noir was a key part of Glasgow’s cultural revival. But Scottish crime writing betrays a fatal smugness, says Kenneth Wright

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

Lilly Markaki chooses ten films which inspire viewers to take action

Marcel Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q. is the greatest work of 20^th century art, writes Peter Burnett

Haftor Medbøe and friends have created a fearsomely fine album, writes Neil Cooper

A new short story by Naomi Richards

By Anne Leigh Parrish