Night Waking
The Guardian 2 October 2025 Novelist Sarah Moss has expressed surprise at the relative lack of literature about parenthood. We are all children of someone, many of us parents too,…
Black Hole Sign
The Guardian 24 September 2025 A black hole sign is the dark area of a CT scan that suggests a haemorrhage on the brain. A black hole could also be…
Small Acts of Love
The Guardian 15 September 2025 What a joy to hear applause again in the Citz. The theatre’s seven-year renovation has been hard. In that time, many have been lost, including…
Our Brother
The Guardian 10 September 2025 If you met a genocidal dictator how would you react? For the Scottish academic who is granted an audience with Cambodia’s Pol Pot in Jack…
A Toast fae the Lassies
The Guardian 31 August 2025 Safe to say that Agnes Broun, Jean Armour and the woman known only as Clarinda never met at the grave of Robert Burns to commemorate…
The Great Gatsby
The Guardian 31 August 2025 The revealing thing about Sarah Brigham’s production of the F Scott Fitzgerald classic is the way it keeps erupting into dance. Any time things threaten…
Windblown
The Guardian 10 August 2025 If you thought there could not be a more Edinburgh-centric show than James Graham’s Make It Happen, with its appearances from Adam Smith and figures…
When Billy Met Alasdair
The Guardian 9 August 2025 There is a scene in Alasdair Gray’s landmark novel Lanark in which the author himself makes an appearance. He startles the eponymous hero, one of…
She’s Behind You
The Guardian 5 August 2025 She stands before us in a blue gingham frock, towering wig and a “hideous yet age-appropriate leisure shoe”. She is Dorothy Blawna-Gale and she is…