by Anne Leigh Parrish

Music has a long history of producing shock artists who are really bellwethers of social change, writes Simon Frith 

by Edina Kikić

A poem by Dorothy Alexander

By Regine Ebner

Liz MacWhirter on Lamorna Ash’s compelling exploration of Gen Z’s turn to religion

Eileen Budd is an an artist, scuba diver and surfer based in Edinburgh.

Common Weal’s Book of Ideas offers a wealth of inspiration for Holyrood policy making, writes Paddy Bort

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

A new documentary about a key character in the story of the Edinburgh Festival gets lost in plodding self-importance, writes Victor Eaves

How would you feel on the first morning of an independent Scotland? Playwright David Greig responds.

Neil Cooper on the return of the lustrous Special Love

A short story of lust and longing in the Old Town, by Lisa Locascio

A new poem by Aaron Sharp