Susan Mansfield

Scotland

Journalist, writer, PR, jobbing wordsmith. Art critic for The Scotsman. Art, books, theatre, writing. Edinburgh festivals, always.

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Highlights for Children & Young Adults

4 days ago | msn.com | Susan Mansfield

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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Highlights for Children & Young Adults

5 days ago | scotsman.com | Susan Mansfield

As well as the usual line-up of children’s writers, this year’s EIBF will also have a dedicated Young Adult strand, writes Susan MansfieldThis year, the Book Festival has a dedicated programme of events for Young Adults for the first time, including a YA takeover of the Spiegeltent on 11 August promising a day of events, discussions and workshops aimed at teenagers hosted by writer Cynthia Murphy.
'I'm obsessed by the idea of youth and experience'

5 days ago | msn.com | Susan Mansfield

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Caroline O'Donoghue: 'I'm obsessed by the idea of youth and experience'

5 days ago | scotsman.com | Susan Mansfield

For her new YA novel, Skipshock, Caroline O’Donoghue reimagined the nature of time, writes Susan Mansfield The pliability of time is a device much enjoyed by writers of fantasy and magic realism. The trick is to do more than travel through it in a Tardis, and Skipshock, Caroline O’Donoghue’s new novel for young adults, plays with time in a way which feels fresh and edgy. When 16-year-old Margo finds herself in a parallel universe, she discovers that time is a commodity.
John Bellany: A Life in Self-Portraiture, Edinburgh review: 'a unique artistic voice'

1 week ago | scotsman.com | Susan Mansfield

John Bellany: A Life in Self-Portraiture, City Art Centre, Edinburgh ★★★★★IN 1965, the year he left Edinburgh for the Royal College of Art, John Bellany painted on the ceiling of his bedroom these lines from Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle: “To be yersel’s - and to mak’ that worth bein’, nae harder job to mortals has been gi’en”.
Non-fiction Highlights

1 week ago | msn.com | Susan Mansfield

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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Non-fiction Highlights

1 week ago | scotsman.com | Susan Mansfield

The theme of repair is explored from many different angles in the non-fiction strand of this year’s EIBF, writes Susan MansfieldA broad, deep river of fascinating non-fiction runs through the Book Festival programme from day to day, which seems an appropriate metaphor because one of the highly anticipated visitors is Robert Macfarlane, with his new book, Is A River Alive? (9 August).
'Marx shows why society is the way it is'

1 week ago | msn.com | Susan Mansfield

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Ash Sarkar: 'Marx shows why society is the way it is'

1 week ago | scotsman.com | Susan Mansfield

Until the Left can unite, corporations and oligarchs will run the world, Ash Sarkar tells Susan MansfieldAsh Sarkar is just back home from the Hay Festival, which was a step too far into the hinterland for a self-confessed “city rat”. She laughs: “The longer I go without the sound of a stolen motorbike, the more likely I am to have a nose bleed!”Chatting on Zoom, the fiercely articulate firebrand of the Left is less intimidating than she is on TV.
Art reviews: Gray’s School of Art Degree Show | Glasgow School of Art MFA Show

2 weeks ago | scotsman.com | Susan Mansfield

Gray’s School of Art Degree Show, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen ★★★★Glasgow School of Art MFA Show, The Glue Factory, Glasgow ★★★★The Gray’s School of Art Degree Show marks the beginning of a new chapter this year with all fine art disciplines being taught under a single banner (this is due to happen at Edinburgh College of Art next year). We will see, in time, what effect this has on the different disciplines.