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Angus Reid
CONFRONTING HOMOPHOBIA: (L) FCB Cadell, The Boxer, c.1924; (
Exhibition review / 21 March 2025
21 March 2025
While the group known as the Colourists certainly reinvigorated Scottish painting, a new show is a welcome chance to reassess them, writes ANGUS REID
BLOOD ON THE TRACKS: Xilun Sun as the mysterious interloper
Film of the Week: / 20 March 2025
20 March 2025
ANGUS REID recommends an exquisite drama about the disturbing impact of the one child policy in contemporary China
Short Story / 7 February 2025
7 February 2025
The phrase “cruel to be kind” comes from Hamlet, but Shakespeare’s Prince didn’t go in for kidnap, explosive punches, and cigarette deprivation. Tam is different.
Frantz Fanon at a press conference during a writers' confere
BenchMarx / 28 January 2025
28 January 2025
ANGUS REID deconstructs a popular contemporary novel aimed at a ‘queer’ young adult readership
A drawing made at the event Scottish Circus, Fruitmarket Gal
Best of 2024 / 3 January 2025
3 January 2025
A landmark work of gay ethnography, an avant-garde fusion of folk and modernity, and a chance comment in a great interview
TIMBERS SHIVERED: The cast of Treasure Island at the Royal L
Theatre review / 29 November 2024
29 November 2024
ANGUS REID applauds the inventive stagecraft with which the Lyceum serve up Stevenson’s classic, but misses the deeper themes
Tom Robinson
Gig Review / 6 October 2024
6 October 2024
ANGUS REID time-travels back to times when Gay Liberation was radical and allied seamlessly to an anti-racist, anti-establishment movement
ROLE MODEL FOR BLACK WOMEN: Ruth Mompati in the Soviet Union
Interview / 15 March 2024
15 March 2024
ANGUS REID speaks to historian Siphokazi Magadla about the women who fought apartheid and their impact on South African society
COMICSTRIP OPERA: Roland Wood as Karl Marx in Jonathan Dove'
Theatre review / 22 February 2024
22 February 2024
ANGUS REID mulls over the bizarre rationale behind the desire to set the life of Karl Marx to music
Jess Hardwick and Shauna MacDonald in David Greig's Two Sist
Theatre Review / 16 February 2024
16 February 2024
ANGUS REID applauds the portrait of two women in a lyrical and compassionate study of sex, shame and nostalgia
THE MISSING LINK: Factories manned by the Red Guards in the
Interview / 26 January 2024
26 January 2024
ANGUS REID speaks to Mark Cousins about his documentary The March On Rome, commissioned in Italy, about Italian fascism then and now
BenchMarx / 5 January 2024
5 January 2024
ANGUS REID reflects on John Pilger's late films as a popular form of political cinema