A vast amount of Scotlandâs birth, death and marriage details for 1986 are among those âcompletely destroyedâ by rainwater from the National Records for Scotlandâs leaking dome, former staff claim.
The poll putting support for Scottish independence marginally in the lead raises issues for all parties, affords no obvious solutions for any of them and simply adds to the political uncertainty of the times we live in, writes Kenny MacAskill.
In an essay on Harriet Beecher Stowe and her remarkable novel Uncle Tomâs Cabin, Edmund Wilson wrote of how it arrives at the lowest circle of Hell: âthe nightmare plantation of Simon Legree, a prison and place of torture, with its Negroes set to flog other Negroes and its tensions of venomous hatredâ¦â Now Colson Whitehead, in this riveting novel, takes us, with laconic economy, to a place of comparable horror, the Nickel Reform School in Florida.
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