Your browser is outdated, and does not support some features used by our website.
We recommend using a recent version of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari. You may continue to explore the site in this browser, but most interactive features will not work as expected.
Hundreds of events for adults, teenagers and children feature authors, illustrators, musicians, poets, policians, thinkers, prize-winners and rising stars every August.
Art made by women is three times more likely to be undervalued than art made by men. The disadvantage extends to representation in gallery spaces and criticism. Join two art historians who are reclaiming the creative space owed to women artists: Katy...
The historian and political theorist Michael Ignatieff began writing a book about consolation before the first lockdown. Now, our lives changed by Covid-19, and with over 80 million refugees fleeing conflicts worldwide, On Consolation feels...
As the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah is riding a wave of new interest in his writing. Gurnah emigrated from his native Zanzibar in his youth and his stories are infused with issues of identity and displacement....
Renowned worldwide for her musical performances, P J Harvey has now turned her creative talents to a long-form poem, six years in the writing. Orlam is an incantatory, coming-of-age poem that brings the Dorset dialect to life, drawing on the rituals and...
Bestselling Canadian writer Alexander MacLeod’s second short story collection, Animal Person, brings together eight stories in which it’s impossible to predict how the cards will fall. A traveller steals suitcases from airport conveyor belts; a...
On Festival nights, we present a new play based on David Keenan’s novel This is Memorial Device. The fictional history of 1980s Airdrie’s mysterious, post-punk legends, Memorial Device, Keenan’s novel has a huge cult following. This stage...