Cencrastus No. 9: Summer 1992

FeaturesCommentPeripheries by Cairns CraigChristo: A New Work in Miami / An Imaginary Visit to Scotland by Wesley K. WarkBorges and Argentina: A Relocation by Neil MackayIn Search of the Scottish Renaissance: The Reprinting of Scottish Fiction by Douglas GiffordSocialism and Nationalism in Scotland by James D. YoungFictionViolent Delight, an extract from a forthcoming novel by Simon GikandiThe Polish Princess and Rehearsals for First Love by Ron ButlinPoetry3 poems by Frank M. ChipasulaShetlandic Poems by U. Iain McCollCity of Our Child by John BergerPoems by Ian Stephen4 Poems by Roderick WatsonReviews(De)constructing Scotland: David Daiches (ed), A Companion to Scottish Culture and Harold Orel, Henry L. Snyder Marilyn Stokstad (eds), The Scottish World, reviewed by Colin MacArthurPeterhead: Town as Polity: Frank Bealey and John Sewel, The Politics of Independence: A Study of a Scottish Town, reviewed by J.M. BochelClearance and Capital: Eric Richards, A History of the Highland Clearances: Agrarian transformation and the Evictions 1746 - 1886, reviewed by Victor DurcaczGaelic Circumscriptions: Donald John MacLeod, 20th Century Publications in Scottish Gaelic, reviewed by Ronald L. BlackThe Common Sense Evangelical: James McCosh: J. David Hoeveler Jr., James McCosh and the Scottish Intellectual Tradition, reviewed by Andrew HookMaxwell's Field of Knowledge: Ivan Tolstoy, James Clerk Maxwell: A Biography, reviewed by R.M. SillittoEdwin Muir's 'Scottish' Criticism: Andrew Noble (ed), Edwin Muir: Uncollected Scottish Criticism and Edwin Muir, Poor Tom, reviewed by Sheila G. HearnWallace the Whiz: Tom Scott, Tales of William Wallace, reviewed by David MeldrumPeacocks and Pagodas: Dorothy K. Haynes, Peacocks and Pagodas and the Best of Dorothy K. Haynes, reviewed by Elspeth DavieOne Volume, More Space: Willis Pickard (ed), Scottish Short Stories 1981, reviewed by Bernard MacLavertyUlster Promontory, Irish Hinterland: Thomas McCarthy, The Sorrow Garden, Tom Paulin and Noel Connor, The Book of Juniper and Aquarius 12, reviewed by Gerald ManganNotes to Lyrics: John Herdman, Voice Without Restraint, reviewed by Peter WomackAn Honorable Legacy: 'Scrutiny' and Politics: Francis Mulhern, The Moment of Scrutiny, reviewed by Kevin KeysThe Privacy industry of Franz Kafka: Elias Canetti, Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice, reviewed by Randall StevensonSysyphean Labours: Gunter Grass, Headbirths, or The Germans are Dying Out and Heinrich Boll, The Safety Net, reviewed by Brian MurdochCarlos Drummond de Anrade, The Minus Sign, reviewed by Giovanni PontieroGuy Butler and Chris Mann (eds), A New Book of South African Verse in English, reviewed by Patricia MorrisYevgeny Yevtushenko, Invisible Threads, reviewed by David McDuff