Books
The Skinny book guide – bringing you book reviews, features, events, reviews and author interviews. Find previews and on the ground reporting from festivals of literature and poetry in Scotland and beyond.
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Book Reviews
Innocent When You Dream: Tom Waits - The Collected Interviews - Mac Montadon (ed)
[I] think it's either Baltimore Negro or turn-of-the-century railroadese. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Book Reviews
Vampire Nation - Arlene Russo
If your imagination is captured by the insert to 'Vampire Nation', with its promise to reveal the history and secrets of the UK's thriving vampire scene, don... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Features
Free Speech on Trial in Turkey: Murat Belge Speaks
What is embraced in Turkey as valuable by the international community is anathema to Turkish nationalism. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Features
Epitaph
He loved it when she smoked. Afterwards, in the dark. He'd make her laugh and watch her shadow amongst the smoke. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Features
Edinburgh: UNESCO City of Literature
A Sense of Place' sets the pace for a bright future for Edinburgh as a UNESCO City of Literature Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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The Blast - Alexander Berkman
Anarchism usually stays well off the radar in mainstream political debate these days. When there's a periodic dose in the media (alongside reports from the W... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006
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Book Reviews
Seo Otters Gamboling in the Wild, Wild Surf - John Bennett
So this is a story about a statue. Not any old statue, but a plastic statuette "depicting a fat, semi-naked, bald man rear-ending an oversized, pink, glitter... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the US Army - Kayla Williams
HOW TO PREPARE FOR DEPLOYMENT IN IRAQ…9. Ask two hundred people you don't know and don't necessarily like to live with you for a month. Make sure there ar... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Lions, Donkeys and Dinosaurs - Lewis Page
For years guns and tanks have been designed for use in Europe and are therefore unsuitable for use in, say, the desert. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon - Daniel C Dennett
A history of belief that combines humour and argument and would entertain even the casual reader. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Blankets - Craig Thompson
A small story, so beautifully told. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Book Reviews
Black Hole - Charles Burns
A beautiful mix of fantasy and truth. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Book Reviews
5 is the Perfect Number - Igort
As atmospheric as the best film noir, filled with shadows, rain drenched alleyways, religious imagery and desperate men dwarfed by post-impressionist Toulouse-Lautrec style billboards. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Features
peas & full
peasthere are many things ishould be doing,i know(switch lights off, recyclebatteries, ownsex toys, wearhemp)and not doing(eat meat, readmagazines, giggle,fu... Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Features
Big Word Poetry
Events like Big Word are changing the way poetry is understood, and ushering it into the mainstream. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006