Such men rise in the ranks and can only be removed by death or revolt … (“Candidate A”) In the 1970s, before the advent of our daily intake of internet reporting, the name Idi Amin Dada evoked a vague sense of horror too distant for the details of his reign of terror to be clear. Read More
Within the last two decades computer-assisted forensic art and facial identification has taken hold of the public’s imagination, with examples ranging from the identification of victims of genocide to the reconstruction of Richard III’s face. DJCAD has played a leading role in such projects. The 2017 Master’s exhibition shows us what can be done with Read More
The MFA Arts, Society and Publics end of year show brings together a diverse group of creatives working in a multitude of different artistic areas for a unique group show. The students on the MFA course are from varied backgrounds and experiences. The course enables these individuals to share knowledge with peers whilst working with Read More
Time, which is itself encased in stunning script: Baikal poured into a single shell or glass receptacle. Belfast folk aver there was nothing wrong with the Titanic when she left their slipway. As that city’s inaugural laureate Sinéad Morrissey arrives in Newcastle, her most recent collection On Balance opens by contemplating the fated liner’s Read More
Sonja, the protagonist in Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, is a Danish translator who is working on a series of Swedish crime fiction novels. She is “over forty” and appears to have reached a midlife crisis when the novel begins. She decides to learn to drive, despite suffering from a form of inherited positional vertigo which can Read More
Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney’s pre-eminence as a poet is too well known to need any elucidation of course, but perhaps it is worth noting here that his prowess as a translator was also already evident in his Beowulf. Heaney undertook his verse translation of the sixth book of Virgil’s Aeneid to honour the memory of Read More
In this winning entry from the 2015 Dundee International Book prize, our hero, Paul, cycles through London streets made dangerous by loose cobbles, trams and steaming piles of horse manure. This farm boy from the highlands of Scotland, soon to be a cycling superhero, must steer himself safely through dangerous times, fuelled by cocaine and Read More
Martin Cathcart Froden’s debut historical crime novel “The Devil take the Hindmost” won the 2015 Dundee International Book Prize of five thousand pounds and publication with Freight Books. Set in the velodromes of London and the Midlands in the late nineteen twenties, it follows the adventures of a young highlander. Paul arrives at Kings Cross Read More
I’m about to interview James Kelman, inarguably one of the most important writers working in Britain today. As I climb the stairs of the University of Dundee’s Tower Building, I’m feeling terribly anxious. Over the course of his career, Kelman has garnered a bit of a reputation for giving quite thorny interviews and I’m Read More