Comment & Debate

• A timely revival for Lovecraft's vision of man's insignificance
  19 May 2012

  In 2012, some 75 years after he died, Howard Phillips Lovecraft is having a bit of a moment.

• Amen to a novel way of looking at the thorny issue of sexuality in the Kirk
  12 May 2012

  Next Saturday the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland opens its doors for its annual jamboree of debates and mini-sermons.

• jkjkjk
  5 May 2012

  This week (26-30 October) the 15th Independent and Radical Book Fair runs in Leith.

• Fun and fright
  5 May 2012

  Virago has published attractive hardback editions of Daphne Du Maurier's novels Frenchman's Creek, Jamaica Inn and Rebecca.

• You can call me narrow-minded, but thanks? No thanks
  7 April 2012

  I used to think of myself as an open-minded person.

• Garner goes back to the Edge to offer a new gift of magic
  31 March 2012

  It was the shadows of men on the back of the boy's eyelids that did it.

• Want to be a better person? Read fiction. And that's a fact
  24 March 2012

  Too late I discover that reading fiction is not just one of life's finest pleasures, but has been scientifically proven to be beneficial.

• Rosset, and others like him, broke the puritan stranglehold
  17 March 2012

  The death last month of the legendary New York publisher, Barney Rosset, was a moment to pause and consider how different world literature might be today if he, and others like him, had been too scared to take on the authorities.