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Putting Yourself in the Picture
Stuart Wallace
When director Michel Gondry wrote his latest feature, Be Kind Rewind, it seems likely that he worked out the solution to his plot before coming up with the problem it subsequently resolved... Starring Jack Black and MosDef, the story begins ...
A Swedish Reality Show since 1891 • Cecelia Kopra
Reality vs fiction—what do we really mean when we make such a distinction? In this age when almost anything can be replicated and mass-produced, many of us long for something we perceive to be truly ...
Prisons, Cemeteries and Concentration Camps: them & us •
MARTIN BELK
Last spring, I began to teach creative writing at Polmont Young Offenders Institution, a prison for young men in Scotland. Society would like to believe prisons are liminal: prisoners go in, spend some time, are rehabilitated, come ...
Japan: Under the Rising Sun
• CHARLES STROSS
download the ONE print version They’ve got our future, damn it! It’s not the shiny future of jet packs and food pills—oh no, that’s not what Japan is about—nevertheless, ...
Beyond the Troubles
• GERALDINE SWEENEY
These photographs, taken in February 2004, document the Northern Irish city of Derry-Londonderry, which, after decades of sectarian violence (known as “the Troubles”), has achieved peace. The first glimmer of peace came on 10 April, 1998, when ...
IAIN M. BANKS •
Culture Shock: the interview
Almost quarter of a century after he made his explosive debut with The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks is still shaking up the literary world. ANDREW J. WILSON discusses space, time and middle initials with one of our greatest contemporary authors....
The Building Trade • Kevin Cadwallender
When I was 15 I left school and worked on a building site as a Floor Tiler. For most of my two years I felt like an existentialist, eventually I ...
Extracts from Iona • Mary Palmer
Iona, a poetic novella, tells the story of how the Scottish isle and the elemental faith of the Celts enabled one person to deal with their demons and find peace. Comprising poems, prose ...
The Air Above the Yards of March • David Troupes
I All the fine crystal is breaking in evening’s furnace-mouth, and smoke sails high over the town while there, under the power ...
Orwell’s Sound of Silence
• ANDREW B SMITH
As Niels Bohr said, “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” George Orwell never claimed to be a prophet, but as ANDREW B. ...
Orwell and the Scots • ANDREW B SMITH
Orwell’s early attitude to the Scots and Scotland could best be described as frosty. In his excellent biography, Bernard Crick refers to the period during 1934 when Orwell had a girlfriend ...
Paris Notes • Mary Folliet
PLUS ÇA CHANGE PLUS C’EST LA MÊME CHOSE: HOWEVER… “Je t’aime, ô capitale infâme!” —Charles Baudelaire (“Le Spleen de Paris”) Place St- Sulpice— Café de la Mairie 2 September 1999 Paris is ...
American Baseball in Black and White • Lee Lowenfish on Rickey, Robinson, and the integration of the sacred diamond.
There are cautiously hopeful signs of racial progress in the United States in all realms of life and culture. Barack Obama, a genuine African-American with roots in Kenya and Kansas, has a fighting chance to become President in ...
Vinyl Solution
A desire to dim my presence in the eye-watering constellation of celebrity explains my preference for the Balmoral Palm Court Bar. A location where such Appellations de Hollywood Contrôlée as Tom Hanks ...
The Music Of Chance • from Edinburgh to Aldeburgh and beyond: Jane McKie talks with
SHEILA COLVIN
A Conversation with Sheila Colvin “It’s been a mess and yet it hasn’t been a mess.” Sheila Colvin has hadan extraordinary international career in the arts—including playing a vital role in the Edinburgh International Festival. JANE McKIE talks ...
Mean City to Big Apple III: heading south
• JD PRYCE
Part III: Heading South download the ONE print version Christmas in New York means doing some really touristy activities. First I took a train up to mid-town to see the ice-skating and the huge tree in Rockefeller Center, then ...
