DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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Resonant reminder
It's difficult not to draw parallels between the insurrectionary attempt to overthrow the Scottish government in 1820 and today, says CALUM BARNES
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
The Fight for Scottish Democracy
by Murray Armstrong
(Pluto Press, £14.99)
FOR the last year, those who approach the Salisbury Crags in Edinburgh are met by a sign that bluntly declares: “Radical Road Closed.”
Given the recent electoral defeats of the left, it is difficult not to read this as a damning statement on our current political impasse. The story goes that this thoroughfare was laid at the suggestion of Walter Scott by unemployed weavers who had been part of the insurrection of 1820, a thwarted attempt to overthrow the government.
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