Whether it appears in the form of anthrax island, a vibrating nuclear presence on the west coast, or, indeed, a deadly virus, each decade appears to unleash new potential for human devastation in Scotland and beyond. Waters rise, social unrest threatens, an invisible, digital, all-seeing eye tracks our every move – and so we go, edging towards dystopia … Welcome to MacArmageddon!

Editorial
Ajockalypse Now

Articles
Petra Johana Poncarová: Addressing Devastation in the Gaelic Literature of the Clearances
Rachelle Atalla: Bunker Life
Tim Baker: Strange Allegiance: Ian Macpherson’s Wild Harbour
Marit Elise Lyngstad: Sustainability and humanity: what young readers can learn from Julie Bertagna’s Exodus

Upon Another Point
Alan Riach: One Hundred Years of Hugh MacDiarmid
Paul Malgrati ‘Antisyzygy’: An Escape Route

Stop Press! A new edition of The Bottle Imp thumbs through the inky pages of the nation’s print media, and looks at Scotland in the Papers.

CONTENTS

• Editorial: What I love about newspapers is their etaoin shrill
• ‘[…] A distant country from which I now live’ – Walter Scott, the Voiceless, and Blackwood’s Highland Gothic (Oliver Robinson-Sivyer)
• ‘A Restless Intellect’: Florence Dixie (1855–1905) (Valentina Bold)
• “We Never Get Ony Fun Here!” – The Scottish Comic Strip Oor Wullie (Anne Guenther)
• Women and the Scottish Press – The Curious Case of Jessie M. King(s) (Charlotte Lauder and Karen Mailley-Watt)

UPON ANOTHER POINT

• The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Italy After 1945 (Arianna Granata)
• You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone: Ecofiction and Social Realism (Tracy Patrick)

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