The Art of the Dealmaker-in-Chief
With Trump’s international agenda, scratch beneath the hilariously crazy surface and you find a more serious campaign to isolate China, China, China
Scotland
Thursday
Wednesday
Exploring Edinburgh, from Princes Street to Pitlochry
City chic to Highlands retreat
Tuesday
A journey through Edinburgh’s gothic past
Underneath its gray, foreboding exterior, it is a joyful and exciting city
Friday
Pure shores: a Scottish sea safari
Island-hopping by day, glamping by night — this is the ultimate way to explore Scotland’s mythology-steeped, wildlife-rich Hebrides
Tuesday
Imperfections in wood lead to perfection in carvings
In Ingrained, Callum Robinson’s aim is not simply to convey his love of working in his chosen way, but to evoke his craft warts and all
Thursday
In search of the quintessentially British afternoon tea
You could search all fifty states, from sea to shining sea, and never come close to finding a proper scone
Friday
Hogmanay in Edinburgh is a marvelous experience
The city is a seductive place to visit, any time of year
Wednesday
The bold new vision for Edinburgh’s National Galleries of Scotland
The galleries are not only an aesthetic pleasure to visit but a fine and salutary reminder of the greatness of Scottish art
Orwells, a place to get away from it all
On the edge of Glasgow’s West End, the posh bar scene melts away for just a moment at Elderslie Street
Monday
The Witchery weaves Halloween magic in Edinburgh
Eerie elegance in the Scottish capital
Friday
Trainspotting at thirty: an interview with Irvine Welsh
‘It would be very difficult, with the homogenization of culture, to publish a book like Trainspotting now’
Monday
Scotland by sleeper
Wanting to avoid the airport, I took a late-evening, six-and-a-half-hour train from Edinburgh to Bristol
Sunday
Hail Mary
Mary Queen of Scots reviewed
Sunday
Thursday
Give me Shakespeare’s Macbeth over Jo Nesbo’s any day
It must have seemed a good idea to someone: commissioning a range of well-known novelists to ‘reimagine Shakespeare’s plays for a 21st-century audience’. The first six novels have come from irreproachably literary authors of the calibre of Jeanette Winterson (The Winter’s Tale) and Margaret Atwood (The Tempest). Now, however, we have something a little different: Jo Nesbo, the Norwegian crime writer, has recast Macbeth as a thriller, allegedly set in 1970, though this timeframe should not be taken too literally. The plot is very loosely connected with Shakespeare’s. The location is a crumbling city in a dystopian country where many of the names have a Scottish ring. Prostitution, gambling and
