John Quin

SEEING as it just won the Booker Prize in the immediate aftermath of Dublin’s recent riots – and whilst I’m currently in the city – it seems…

TRUE confession. I was 13 when I first came across a book by JG Ballard.

A CURATE’S egg – what is that, exactly? Is it the one your granny sucks? You know, the egg she’s forever being taught about, straw in hand.…

YOU’RE stuffed. Go on, admit it, you’ve eaten too much. You couldn’t face another morsel, not even an After Eight, not even a tiny wah-fer…

WHAT better way to start the year than countering delusional notions of optimism?

DRY January in the publishing world, a time of relative famine. Not many books come out in the first weeks of the year so here’s one I’m late…

I’M at a parking space for ships or submarines in what looks like the lair of a Bond villain, albeit one from the 16th century...

RICHARD Birkett, the director of Glasgow International – now in its 10th edition – says there’s no over-arching theme to this latest iteration…

The artist’s sculptural installations in ‘Site Lines’ at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, capture the impermanence of the visible

IT’S a bright morning and I’m on Oxford Street (the other one) near the Clyde where Dundee-born artist Scott Myles has his studio ...