Enxhi Mandija

Non-Fiction Ever wanted to peek behind the curtains of Speakin’ Weird? ‘ Zooming On Performance Nights ‘ covers their lockdown sessions with Orla Kelly. I’ve grown up speaking to my grandparents and uncles and cousins over online video calls, more than I saw them in the flesh. So I guess all of this Zooming and …

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Non-Fiction In her reflection on ‘Tales of Silver City’, Imaginatively by Enxhi Mandija the boundaries of Aberdeen’s cultural sphere. A music-hall song and a few bad novels. That’s all we’ve given to the world outside. It’s all we’ve given ourselves. Alasdair Gray, ‘Lanark’. 1981 In 1981, Thaw and McAlpin lamented that Glasgow didn’t exist ‘imaginatively.’ …

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