Living by the Sword
It’s said that when Georgi Vladimov’s novella Faithful Ruslan was first circulated in samizdat in the Soviet Union of the 1970s, readers saw it as an allegorical story about the fate of the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin in 1956.
Living by the Sword
As reported last week, in the second instalment of an ongoing series, emotions are running high in the Spey Valley following the removal of two chairlifts from the CairnGorm Mountain ski area. Although they had been closed since 2005 many skiers had hoped that Ciste and West Wall lifts...
Living by the Sword
If someone wanted to write a cruel parody of a Salman Rushdie novel, they might very well come up with Salman Rushdie’s new novel, The Golden House. It takes every one of his tropes and tricks and twitches, adds in a healthy dose of liberal smugness, and then preens itself for good measure.
Living by the Sword
It is a world many women have dreamed of, one where pregnancy is no longer solely the responsibility of the female, where sexism has been stamped out and where child rearing is divided equally between the parents.
Living by the Sword
If you’re looking for spine-tingling moments in Edinburgh theatre this week, there are probably two on offer; and intriguingly, both are based on the history of the 1960s. One is the horrible, backward-looking sound of Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech of 1968...
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A new quartet with an illustrious pedigree, Glasgow’s Amor are an odd proposition on paper; a party-ready disco band comprising one avant-garde musician and songwriter (Richard Youngs), one Turner Prize-nominated artist (Luke Fowler)...
Living by the Sword
Welcome to the second in a series of articles looking at the controversial removal of chairlift infrastructure from the CairnGorm Mountain ski resort near Aviemore. As outlined in last week’s scene-setter...
Living by the Sword
In 2009, two English writers, Dougald Hine and Paul Kingsnorth, launched what they now describe as “a tiny initiative in the back room of a pub to about 40 slightly confused people”. That initiative was The Dark Mountain Project...
Living by the Sword
Let me say at the outset that this is a truly wonderful, morally complex, politically astute novel written with elegance and panache. Although much trailed as being a return to the characters of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold...
Living by the Sword
One of the most talked about works at the Venice Biennale in 2015, Nazhad and the Bell by the Iraqi artist Hiwa K gets its first UK showing here, having been spotted by the team from Hospitalfield who curated Graham Fagen’s Biennale show for the same year.
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Back in 1987, when The Steamie first appeared, Glasgow was still full of men and women in their prime who could remember the city’s old communal wash-houses or steamies. Today, by contrast, the idea...
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Rapture Theatre scored a resounding hit earlier this year, with a production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? that featured a world-class performance from Sara Stewart as one of the greatest American anti-heroines, the wrecked and brilliant Martha.
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New York’s East Village came to the unlikely setting of the green-tinged Hibs Supporters’ Club bar for the Edinburgh leg of Jeffrey Lewis’s extensive but very low-key tour of small Scottish venues. “I’m...
Living by the Sword
On 21 August, photographs started popping up on social media that appeared to show the destruction of the chairlift towers and other infrastructure on the Coire na Ciste side of the CairnGorm Mountain ski area near Aviemore.
Living by the Sword
After a difficult 18 months, during which its artistic director resigned and its core funding was pulled, the Edinburgh Mela has risen like a phoenix from the ashes – albeit with slightly less plumage.
