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This gentle Japanese film starts out as a nice guy, and nobody really likes a nice guy; they never get the girls.  A meandering story of love, dogs and ... Read more »

Chinese documentary filmmaker Wang Bing validates his 2012 Edinburgh film festival masterclass with an outright masterpiece in 2013. Three Sisters orbit... Read more »

Richard Curtis rounds off his trust fund trilogy with weddings (not four, thankfully) and love (not actually, mercifully) in this return to the vanilla, uppe... Read more »

When The Skinny arrives to meet Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, the South African director who’s in town for the screening of his latest film, Of Good Report,... Read more »

“Respect the sea, because the sea’s the master,” reflects a voice over ominous images of crashing waves. It’s surely the boss of Aaro... Read more »

One of the abiding final shots in cinema is the crumbling face of Song Kang-ho in the epilogue of Memories of Murder, his impotent, accusatory stare thr... Read more »

“It was a good cock, there’s no disputing it. It made her giddy just to look at it, throbbing, twitching and pulsating there within her hand...&r... Read more »

Let me tell you a story. Now aren’t those six simple words just so comforting and intriguing? So, if you’re ready, let me tell you a story of sto... Read more »

Edinburgh’s vibrant cabaret scene broadens itself this August with the Saltire Society hosting its first ever Speakeasy nights as part of the... Read more »

What’s the most precious book on your shelf?  I’m sitting here looking at it... it’s Sylvia Plath's collected poems which is incredib... Read more »

What’s the most precious book on your shelf?  I have quite a few – I'm a big B. S. Johnson fan and I went a bit mental a few years ago and ... Read more »

“Often, sadly, writers get a very generic rejection letter from a publisher and they don’t know what to do next,” says Sarah Hull, Creative... Read more »

“Any artist who comes into the music business is doing exactly that. They’ve decided they don’t want to be an artist, they don’t want... Read more »

It's the second last night of Edinburgh International Book Festival, but it refuses to go gentle into that good night. Instead they present the smiling, jovi... Read more »

Things fall apart.  A truism of life. Nations, families, individuals; whether through a civilisation’s crumbling mortar, an unravelling of social ... Read more »

I have a confession to make. An interest to declare, you might say. Dante Lam saved my life. Indulge this overly dramatic exaggeration a little. You see, aro... Read more »

It could be argued that The Shining’s most terrifying moment came 32 years after its original release, in Room 237, a 2012 documentary which pondered c... Read more »

Sara Nović pours herself into her central character in Girl at War: the ten-year-old Ana, caught up in the atrocities of the Balkan conflict. We speak t... Read more »

If anybody reading this went to the Borders Book Festival to see Joyce McMillan, and if her voice gave way mid-event to leave a silent abyss... well then, we... Read more »

How might you boil Edinburgh International Book Festival down to a single page? With over 700 events featuring more than 800 authors it’s impossible to... Read more »

The Skinny: Can you explain the history and ethos behind your multi-discipline events? Michael Pedersen (Neu! Reekie!): For us to be diverse, desirable... Read more »

Talking with Geoff Dyer could be kind of intimidating. He’s written feature length books on D.H. Lawrence and John Berger. His award-winning criticism ... Read more »

Nightmare in Berlin, the lost work of Hans Fallada – addict, womanizer, jailbird and thief – is finally published in English. Its trans... Read more »

2016 has witnessed a President being voted into the White House on a mandate of hate. And while we gawp disbelievingly over the Atlantic, remember, we’... Read more »

As a 23-year-old lawyer, Isabel Buchanan travelled to Lahore to contribute to overturning death sentence cases, many which seemed based upon either unjust, u... Read more »

There’s a certain symmetry to the two Skinny books interviews conducted over the last week. Both US authors of violent, technicolour crime novels. One ... Read more »

Dystopias are so in right now. So, you won’t have to cast your mind far to imagine Los Angeles engulfed in flames: the shrieking backdraft of violence ... Read more »

"It began like all good rock n' roll stories in the House of Blues in New Orleans." Doug Johnstone spins out the origins story of The Fun Lovin' Crime Writer... Read more »

There’s a lovely meta-moment towards the end of Jia Zhangke's Unknown Pleasures. Somewhat self-deprecating, or perhaps just a bitter-tinged piece ... Read more »

“Kiri, kiri, kiri kiri kiri....” The reaction these words cause in me is Pavlovian, but contrary to salivation they offer only dread. These are a... Read more »