ALAN MORRISON recommends a consummate, heart-warming collection about a working-class upbringing in the industrial north-east
Celtic bird movement
MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds two evocative new productions that have premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe before touring nationwide
REFRESHINGLY IMMEDIATE: Scottish Dance Theatre perform Moving Cloud
[Brian Hartley]
KATAYOUN SHAHANDEH surveys Iran’s cultural heritage and explains what has been damaged and what could be lost
A dazzling novel, and autobiographical fiction, by Mexicans Brenda Navarro and Cristina Rivera Garza, and poetry by Brazilian Ricardo Domeneck
JONATHAN TAYLOR ponders the difference between autobiography and memoir - between life and story - in Margaret Atwood’s account of herself
Rereleases from Andrew Gold; John McFee, Stu Cook, Keith Knudsen; and The Outer Limits
Five years ago a flash crowd of Glaswegian activists defeated the Home Office and the police; MATT KERR urges you to savour that day in a cinema
The Flock and Moving Cloud
Scottish Dance Theatre, Zoo Southside, Edinburgh
IN a festival strewn with autobiography and confessional stand-up, it’s arresting to witness the facial neutrality of a dance troupe bent on conveying the ideas of an objective author.
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MIK SABIERS enjoys the theatrical feminist six piece who have a lot of fun that the audience feeds off as the set rolls on
MARK TURNER is staggered by a gifted jazz pianist from the Welsh Valleys