Scotland

No True Scotsman: Searching for Robert Burns in the Middle of Florida

Rudi Zygadlo Attempts to Address the Haggis at a Sarasota Country Club

 
By Rudi Zygadlo  March 13, 2024
News

And the winners of books most left behind in Scottish hotels in 2022 are…

By Janet Manley  March 1, 2023
Appalachia

On Disrupting a Cherished Musical Tradition and Creating New Appalachian Ballads

By Elizabeth Ford  October 21, 2022
Classic Novels

Maggie O’Farrell on Elspeth Barker’s Modern Scottish Classic, O Caledonia

By Maggie O'Farrell  September 20, 2022
Folklore

From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

By Emma Seckel  August 3, 2022
Emergence Magazine

Cal Flyn Muses on Butterfly Land Grabs and Other Climate Migrations

By Emergence Magazine  July 5, 2022
Farming

Writing About the Small Farming Life in the Shadow of Climate Change

By Patrick Laurie  November 16, 2021
Empire

How Does Britain Maintain Relevance in a Changing World?

By Tim Marshall  November 12, 2021
Drinking

A Scotsman: Why I Love Getting Drunk on Cocktails in America

By Daniel Sloss  October 13, 2021
Environment

On the Self-Sustaining Ecosystem and Beauty of Scotland’s Man-Made Bings

By Cal Flyn  June 18, 2021
The Hub

Happy Burns Night! Finally, an excuse to drink too much whisky.

By Jonny Diamond  January 25, 2021
The Hub

Scotland, which is better than England, deems books an essential good.

By Jonny Diamond  January 13, 2021
Nature

On the Nature Poetics of the Great Nan Shepherd, Bard of the Highlands

By Kerri Andrews  October 7, 2020
Booksellers

Diary of a Scottish Bookseller

By Shaun Bythell  June 22, 2020
Working Class Literature

Poverty, Anxiety, and Gender in Scottish Working-Class Literature

By Douglas Stuart  February 10, 2020
The Hub

Today on Scottish Twitter: Shell asks poet laureate of profanity Irvine Welsh “not to swear.”  

By Jonny Diamond  January 21, 2020
Reading Women

Sarah Moss on Ghost Walls, Violence Against Women, and Social Structures

By Reading Women  January 8, 2020
Excerpts

Deep Time and an Uncertain Futureon the Orkney Islands

By Laura Watts  March 25, 2019
Essay

A Love Letter to Lovers of Outlander

By Amanda Feinman  February 14, 2019
Feature

How to Open a Bookstore in Rural Scotland

By Shaun Bythell  September 6, 2018
Excerpts

Zen and the Art of Alan Spence

By Janice Galloway  August 13, 2018
Essay

The Time I Drank with Borges in a Scottish Pub

By Jay Parini  March 20, 2018
Where to Go

8 Highly Unusual Writing Residencies

By Emily Temple  February 22, 2017
Poets

How to Celebrate Robert Burns Night (Hint: With Haggis)

By Emily Temple  January 25, 2017
Deep Dive

Was Yeats’ “The Second Coming” Really About Donald Trump?

By Jay Parini  April 18, 2016
Feature

Inside the Ultimate Writers’ Retreat

By Pauls Toutonghi  November 5, 2015
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