Scotland

Home, Home on the Clyde

October 14, 2019 | J. R. Patterson

Photo: Johnny Silvercloud / Flickr Seeking to understand the fascination with America and cowboys that courses through a Scottish subculture, a Canadian writer joins a gun club for its wee...
2015 International Writer of Courage, Scotland’s favorite literary quote, and more

October 9, 2015 | WLT

Demonstration for Raif Badawi outside the Embassy of Saudi-Arabia, Helsinki, Finland. Raif Badawi was named the 2015 International Writer of Courage this week. Photo by Amnesty International/Flickr....
Fiction in poetry, remembering William Weaver, and Typhoon Haiyan relief

November 22, 2013 | Kaitlin Hawkins

Hollywood celebrities pass away in groups of three, they say; in the literary world, this phenomenon seems to happen in pairs. This past week, we said goodbye to two more literary figureheads: first,...
Falling into a Laurence Cossé Novel in Looking Glass Books, Edinburgh

August 22, 2012 | Michelle Johnson

He decided to make a selection that would be as arbitrary as it was brilliant. . . . Very quickly the idea of selling books that he himself would not advise people to read infuriated him. . . . Al...
The Edinburgh International Book Festival kicks off in Scotland

August 13, 2012 | Jen Rickard Blair

The Edinburgh International Book Festival is off to an energetic start, and in the course of two weeks the festival will feature no fewer than eight hundred international writers in around 750 unique...