This short story by April L Ford was inspired by Hazel Gore’s painting ‘Living Alone in Paradise’. It comes with a trigger warning for rape and sexual assault.

A short story by Heather Pearson

A short story by Scott Fleming 

An appreciation of William McIlvanney, by Alistair Braidwood

By Wayne Connolly

As the late and much-loved Katy Dove’s work is celebrated in a major exhibition, Neil Cooper talks to Graham Domke and Anne Marie Copestake about this most playful and visionary of artists

Andrei Semenev enjoys an expansive study of Russia’s courageous and complex opposition leader

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

Stig Bjorkman’s intimate portrait of Ingrid Bergman offers a close up of the woman, not the screen idol, writes Allan Hunter

Neil Cooper finds Jimmy Cauty’s  miniaturist celebration of dissent strikingly apposite

Law Holt choose her favourite songs. By Hugo Fluendy

By Heather Pearson

A new poem by Lauren Clarke