Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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BooksBlackouts by Justin Torres
Justin Torres' highly anticipated sophomore novel experiments with form to consider how we document and preserve queer histories Read more »| 30 Oct 2023 -
FilmHow to Have Sex
Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature, following three teen girls on a holiday in Malia, is a remarkable feat in modern social realism Read more »| 30 Oct 2023 -
MusicThere Will Be Fireworks – Summer Moon
There Will Be Fireworks' new album Summer Moon retains the most visceral and passionate elements of its predecessor, and blossoms new quirks and qualities Read more »| 30 Oct 2023 -
MusicKing Creosote – I DES
King Creosote's latest album I DES is a largely jubilant and life-affirming meditation on life and mortality Read more »| 30 Oct 2023 -
MusicSpace for Everyone: Wu-Lu on the importance of community
Ahead of his appearance at The Great Western, we speak to Miles Romans-Hopcraft, aka Wu-Lu, about the importance of community in the creation of his music and his audience Read more »| 30 Oct 2023 -
MusicTirzah – trip9love…???
Tirzah’s surprise new release brings an unprecedented level of propulsion and structure to her off-kilter romantics Read more »| 27 Oct 2023
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MusicYoung Fathers win the 2023 SAY Award
Third time's a charm for Edinburgh outfit Young Fathers, announced as winners of the 2023 Scottish Album of the Year Award for their fourth studio album Heavy Heavy Read more »| 26 Oct 2023 -
MusicSpotlight On... LAMAYA
Ahead of releasing her debut single, COMING FOR UR <3, we shine a spotlight on genre-agnostic East Kilbride artist LAMAYA Read more »| 26 Oct 2023 -
MusicThe Kills – God Games
Rock duo The Kills return with a new album for the first time in seven years, delivering more of their trademark grooves but failing to offer much in the way of new ideas Read more »| 26 Oct 2023 -
ArtEAF 2023: Scotland’s International Art Fair
Edinburgh Art Fair is back with another dynamic programme of art, music, talks and workshops, alongside a carefully considered lineup of food and drinks featuring some truly spectacular art puns Read more »| 25 Oct 2023 -
MusicEnglish Teacher @ McChuills, Glasgow, 22 Oct
Two hot pots of Yorkshire gold heat up Glasgow's McChuills on a Sunday night Read more »| 25 Oct 2023 -
ComedyEsther Manito @ The Stand, Glasgow
Hell Hath No Fury is an evocative and defiant title for Esther Manito’s most recent tour, and Manito’s material and performance live up to it Read more »| 25 Oct 2023 -
BooksLet Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Twice winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, Jesmyn Ward returns with a stunning, defiant historical imagining of the American South Read more »| 25 Oct 2023 -
MusicThe Skinny On... Katie Gregson-MacLeod
Hot on the heels of releasing her excellent new EP Big Red, Katie Gregson-Macleod takes this month's Q&A Read more »| 25 Oct 2023 -
BooksVengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye
In Marie NDiaye's quiet psychological thriller, a lawyer represents a woman on trial for murder, in whose past she is inescapably entangled Read more »| 25 Oct 2023