Reviews Archives - RADICAL SCOTTISH POLITICAL WRITING

RADICAL SCOTTISH POLITICAL WRITING

Documentary Review

10th January 202210th January 20227 months ago Scottish Left Review 3 min read 372 Views

Steve Sprung, writer/director, The Plan That Came From The Bottom Up, 2018 Reviewed by Jackie Bergson The need for the

Review of Prose Anthology

10th January 202210th January 20227 months ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 318 Views

Jim Aitken (ed.) Ghosts of the Early Morning Shift: An anthology of Radical Prose from Contemporary Scotland, Culture Matters, 2021,

Book Review

10th January 202210th January 20227 months ago Scottish Left Review 2 min read 393 Views

Sally Rooney Beautiful World, Where Are You? Faber & Faber, 2021 Reviewed by John Wood Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are

Short Story Review

10th January 202210th January 20227 months ago Scottish Left Review 1 min read 465 Views

Colin Burnett A Working Class State of Mind, Pierpoint Press, £9.84, 9781914090158 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan The title of the

Book Review

10th January 202210th January 20227 months ago Scottish Left Review 2 min read 529 Views

Jim Sillars A Difference of Opinion: My political journey, Birlinn, 2021, 97817802706830, £14.99, pp303 Reviewed by Will Podmore Jim Sillars

Book Review

10th January 202210th January 20227 months ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read 400 Views

Jane Hardy Nothing to Lose But Our Chains: Work and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Britain, Pluto, 2021, 9780745341040, pp272, £19.99 Reviewed

Poetry Review

15th July 202115th July 20211 year ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 491 Views

David Bleiman, This Kilt of Many Colours, Dempsey and Windle, 2021, 9781913329457, £8.00, pp50. Reviewed by David McKinstry This Kilt

Review

25th May 202125th May 20211 year ago Scottish Left Review 1 min read 603 Views

The Red Paper Reviewed by Vince Mills. In the latest issue of the Red Paper, it is argued that the

Opera Review

9th May 20209th May 20202 years ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 662 Views

Can lefties like Wagner? Graeme Arnott previews his granddaughters’ forthcoming production of her great-grandfather’s opera ‘Lohengrin’. It’s August 1876 and

Review – The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

12th November 20184 years ago SLR 2 min read 846 Views

James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Commentary by Douglas Gifford, Readings by John Sheldon, Association

Review – International Companion to James Macpherson & the Poems of Ossian

12th November 20184 years ago SLR 1 min read 680 Views

The International Companion to James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian, edited by Dafydd Moore, Scottish Literature International, £14.95, 9781908980199