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FeaturesPoisoned World: Samanta Schweblin on Fever Dream
The Argentinian author's Booker International shortlisted debut drips dead from its pages, a technical masterclass with a dark soul. Samanta Schweblin discusses Fever Dream, imagined anxieties and the real toxins poisoning us and our planet Read more »| 16 Oct 2017 -
FeaturesGazed & Confused: On a Literary Female Gaze
Inspired by a conversation with author Siri Hustvedt and her current collection of essays, our writer takes a look at the gendered gaze in literature, discussing works such as Deborah Levy's Hot Milk and Naomi Alderman's The Power Read more »| 10 Oct 2017 -
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Scottish Poetry News: October 2017
Caroline Bird of Flint & Pitch introduces her new collection, and we look ahead at a month of poetry events across Scotland Read more »| 10 Oct 2017 -
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Siri Hustvedt on the gendered gaze in art
Siri Hustvedt's collection of essays on art, sex and the mind is now out in paperback, so we catch up with the highly respected writer to engage with the key themes of A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women Read more »| 05 Oct 2017 -
FeaturesClemens Meyer & Jenny Erpenbeck on the German Novel
While their own broadsheet culture pages may often claim that The German novel is dead, The Skinny speaks to the exciting and experimental authors Clemens Meyer and Jenny Erpenbeck to find out how they are disproving this theory Read more »| 18 Sep 2017 -
FeaturesSabrina Mahfouz & Iona Lee on women in poetry
National Poetry Day is on 28 September, with the 2017 theme of Freedom. The perfect opportunity then to speak with Iona Lee and Sabrina Mahfouz about the increasing volume of women's voices in the poetry scene Read more »| 14 Sep 2017
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Videos
Salena Godden – RED for Nasty Women (video premiere)
The inimitable Salena Godden presents her new poem RED, donated to global art movement Nasty Women Read more »| 11 Sep 2017 -
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Bloody Scotland returns to Stirling
Dark and deadly happenings are predicted in Stirling on 8-10 Sep when our greatest crime writers gather for Bloody Scotland. But we find there is far more on offer than those big name authors to have put Scotland on the crime writing map Read more »| 01 Sep 2017 -
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Omar El Akkad on Charlottesville and American War
Charlottesville erupted after Omar El Akkad completed his prescient novel American War, yet like many speculative authors he was frighteningly accurate. He discusses with The Skinny the polarisation of, and battle lines running through, modern America Read more »| 21 Aug 2017 -
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Read the Chris McQueer short story: IS IT ART?
Chris McQueer's stories are beautifully profane & fucking hilarious, yet often echo with the truth of working class lives too rarely seen in literature. A live scene regular, he's now put them to page for debut collection Hings. Read IS IT ART? here Read more »| 17 Aug 2017 -
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Women in Translation: The best of 2017
August is Women in Translation month, bringing attention to an underrepresented section of literature; here's q tip of the hat to the translators bringing this work to us & one writer's personal pick of titles for 2017, both published & in the pipeline Read more »| 15 Aug 2017 -
Festivals
Protest: Laura Hird leads the resistance at EIBF
We speak to author Laura Hird about her Radical War story in the new anthology Protest, and the Edinburgh Book Festival event to mark it. In a time when political protest is so relevant, it's important to learn from an often forgotten past Read more »| 10 Aug 2017 -
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Michael Pedersen & Scott Hutchison on Oyster
Our poetry columnist speaks with Michael Pedersen, co-pilot of Neu! Reekie! and Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit, to get the dirt on their succulent new collaboration of Michael's poetry and Scott's artwork: Oyster Read more »| 07 Aug 2017 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Highlights
Our Books Editor asks you to engage with the grand questions facing the world today, all being discussed in one small square in Edinburgh's west end over August. Here's his highlights for the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2017 Read more »| 04 Aug 2017 -
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Women in Wartime Literature
A English translation of Svetlana Alexievich’s The Unwomanly Face of War got us thinking about representations of women in wartime Read more »| 14 Jul 2017