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Review: Woodenbox - End Game

Woodenbox - End Game (Released: 27 May 2013)

The modern sound of mariachi excels in sophomore release

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Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee: Here and Now »

Here and Now: correspondance between Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee

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Here and Now collects the correspondence between Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee, two writers who occupy similar constellations in the literary imagination, written between 2008 and 2011. After meeting for the first time in 2008, Coetzee proposed to Auste...

Sun 21 Apr 2013 by Daniel Davies | Read more »

Review - The Childhood of Jesus »

J.M. Coetzee's 'The Childhood of Jesus'

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The Childhood of Jesus is a book that represents a significant divergence from the rest of Coetzee’s oeuvre. Instead of a bleak, dystopian tale, this is a perversely comic, intellectually profound and obscurely allegorical novel. Protagonists S...

Sun 21 Apr 2013 by Vivek Santayana | Read more »

Review - Calcutta by Amit Chaudhuri »

Calcutta

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Amit Chaudhuri’s new travelogue-cum-autobiographical tale is a remarkable feat. On the surface it's a poignant personal narrative that takes the reader on a journey across the city. But it's also a uniquely heartfelt reflection on the proces...

Thu 21 Mar 2013 by Vivek Santayana | Read more »

Bridging borders at the Scottish Poetry Library »

Scottish Poetry Library

In an experiment with technology, poetry and nature, the Scottish Poetry Library hosted poets Kathleen Jamie and Jen Hadfield for a special teleconferenced reading on Friday 1 March. With Jamie in Edinburgh and Hadfield in Shetland, the performers were...

Mon 04 Mar 2013 by Jennifer Taylor | Read more »

Review - Murdoch's Politics »

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In November 1989 The Sun ran a two-page news story: "STRAIGHT SEX CANNOT GIVE YOU AIDS – OFFICIAL". It was the beginning of a concerted campaign to discredit the discovery of the HIV-AIDS link; an attempt to propagate the subliminal message that...

Sun 03 Mar 2013 by John Hewitt Jones | Read more »

Ron Butlin: The Magicians of Edinburgh »

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Edinburgh as a subject poses a challenge for poets. Like Venice, it’s all-too-easy to resort to superlatives and depict a city that slops around in its own mawkishness. It’s an irony to which Magicians of Edinburgh commonly falls foul. Fro...

Sun 03 Mar 2013 by Alex Howard | Read more »

W.H. Auden: Rake, Radical and Librettist »

W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman

Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, American newspapers and cable news networks were quick to band about the saccharine sound byte ‘Those to whom evil is done/ do evil in return.’ It’s a quotation taken from ‘September 1, ...

Wed 20 Feb 2013 by John Hewitt Jones | Read more »

Christopher Brookmyre - Bedlam »

Bedlam by Christopher Brookmyre

Waking up to find yourself trapped in a video game is hardly a new concept but it is one that Scottish author Christopher Brookmyre approaches with fresh eyes and sharp wit. Bedlam sees Ross Baker finding out there are worse ways to spend his day than...

Tue 19 Feb 2013 by Stefani Millar | Read more »

Tribute to Professor Susan Manning »

Susan Manning

The announcement of Professor Susan Manning’s passing came as a shock to all those who knew her, and the tributes left on the University’s webpage are a testament to the esteem in which she was held, not just in Edinburgh but around the wor...

Wed 06 Feb 2013 by Dr Andrew Taylor | Read more »

Review: The Horologicon by Mark Forsyth »

The Horologicon

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Of the list of useless books to have on your shelf, The Horlogicon should be at the very top. It’s a scintillating exploration of language, sallying through an eclectic variety of words in the order that you might use them during the day. Who wou...

Wed 06 Feb 2013 by Jon Vrushi | Read more »

Is it a car? Is it a book? No, it's B.S. Johnson »

The Unfortunates is an unusual read. If you get hold of a copy, the first thing you’ll notice is that it isn’t a book. It’s a box. The chapters are printed as individual booklets, designed to be scattered about by the reader and read...

Wed 06 Feb 2013 by John Hewitt Jones | Read more »

Being creative with the truth »

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Last year was an interesting year for the discussion of the responsibility of the writer. Life of Pi has grossed nearly $500 million in box office sales, widely being hailed as the first ‘proper’ 3D film. In the furore there’s been li...

Wed 23 Jan 2013 by John Hewitt Jones | Read more »

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold »

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

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The archetypal cold war spy novel, Le Carré balances the subterranean world of 60’s espionage, with a compelling human narrative of gripping intensity. After a network of agents in Berlin is seriously compromised, Alec Leamus finds himsel...

Wed 23 Jan 2013 by John Hewitt Jones | Read more »

The Innocent »

The Innocent

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This is an early, easily overlooked McEwan novel. With a slow beginning and unconvincing chunks of dialogue, it may not have the polish of his later books, but it’ll leave an impact through a dramatic denouement that’s as gruesome as it is ...

Wed 23 Jan 2013 by John Hewitt Jones | Read more »

The Spies of Warsaw »

Spies of Warsaw

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Alan Furst’s gripping espionage-thriller follows Colonel Jean-François Mercier as he runs a precarious operation to gather intelligence on the eve of the German invasion of France; a relentless game of deception and subterfuge between agen...

Wed 23 Jan 2013 by Vivek Santayana | Read more »

Harland Miller: Overcoming Optimism »

Harland Miller: Overcoming Optimism

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Sun 20 Jan 2013 by Aideen Herron | Read more »

Life of Pi »

Life of Pi

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A celebration of faith in its many forms, Life of Pi tells the remarkable story of young Pi Patel, a boy from Pondicherry, India. Growing up near his father’s zoo, Pi’s early life is one of discovery of both the natural and the spiritual. T...

Tue 15 Jan 2013 by Jennifer Taylor | Read more »

Whites Of Passage »

Glasgow author Chris Dolan

It’s a bad idea to suggest that Chris Dolan has ever had a bad idea. The Glasgow author is ready and willing to stomp round to a spiteful literary critic’s home to punch them on the nose.  If they’re lucky. Otherwise h...

Wed 21 Nov 2012 by Lorne Jackson | Read more »

Fifty Shades of Shite »

Call on Dublin Street

A history graduate from the University of Edinburgh has been snapped up by Penguin for a two-book deal, days after taking America’s e-book market by storm. Having self-published her work online over the summer, Samantha Young’s erotic nove...

Wed 21 Nov 2012 by John Hewitt Jones | Read more »

Norwegian Wood »

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This is the novel with which Murakami carved his place firmly into the Japanese literary canon. Brimming with resonances of the author’s love of solitude, it is Murakami’s first ‘conventional’ novel, focusing on love and the com...

Wed 21 Nov 2012 by John Hewitt Jones | Read more »

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