Cencrastus No. 6: Autumn 1981

FeaturesAn Interview with Nadine Gordimer, by Ian Fullerton and Glen MurrayDonald Campbell: Playwright in Search of a Method by Lindsay PatersonR.L. Stevenson: Precursor of the Post-Moderns? by Alex ClunasRobert Garioch, a conversation with Donald CampbellSpiritual and Temporal Hazards: The Art of Robert Colquhoun by Andrew BrownGoing Down to Hell is Easy: Alasdair Gray's "Lanark", by Cairns CraigFictionThe Native by Fred JohnstonThe Monarch of Time translated by Colin Wight and introduced by Félix de AzúaPoetryHolocaust by David BlackPoems by Hilary KassmanSalmon Sky on the Ocean by John DallyPoems of Peter Härtling translated and introduced by Richard DoveReviewsMichael Keating & David Bleiman, Labour and Scottish Nationalism, reviewed by Michael C. DyerH.M. Drucker & Gordon Brown, The Politics of Nationalism and Devolution, reviewed by Jim SillarsMichael Cross, New Firm Formation and Regional Development & Peter L. Payne, The Early Scottish Limited Companies, reviewed by Gavin KennedyStuart Christie, The Christie File, reviewed by Raymond J. RossWilliam P.L. Thomson, The Little General and the Rousay Crofters: Crisis and Conflict on an Orkney Estate & George Mackay Brown, Portrait of Orkney, reviewed by Alexander SmallDavid Hamilton, The Healers: A History of Medicine in Scotland, reviewed by Malcolm NicolsonDrama on the Air: George Brandt (ed), British Television Drama and John Drakakis (ed), British Radio Drama, reviewed by Stewart ConnJack Ronder, The Lost Tribe, reviewed by David DaichesG. Ross Roy (ed.) Studies in Scottish Literature Vol. XVI, reviewed by Ian CampbellDenton Fox (ed), The Poems of Robert Henryson, W.R.J. Barron (ed), Robert Henryson, and Douglas Gray, Robert Henryson, reviewed by R.D.S. JackHogg at Home and Abroad: John Carey (ed), The privae Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. William Laughlan (ed), James Hogg: Highland Tours, and Norah Parr, James Hogg at Home, reviewed by Elaine E. PetrieSean O'Faolain, Collected Stories Volume 1, reviewed by Harry RitchieAnne Smith, The Magic Glass, reviewed by Sheila G. HearnIain Crichton Smith, Murdo and Other Stories, reviewed by Andrew LothianMuriel Spark, Loitering with Intent, reviewed by Joan LingardNotions of Narrative: Carlos Fuentes, Burnt Water, and Autran Dourado, The Voices of the Dead, reviewed by Brian McCabeSteven Boldy, The Novels of Julio Cortázar, reviewed by Peter StandishMaurice Lindsay, Scottish Comic Verse, andThe Voice of the Lion: Caroline Bingham's Choice of Historical Verse, reviewed by William DonaldsonHilary and Mary Evans, John Kay of Edinburgh, reviewed by Sandy Moffat