Map of Thoughtland: The Drouth

The Drouth is:

Scotland's leading cultural quarterly. Publishing features and fiction, we are especially interested in literature, film and politics but also visual art, music, architecture, photography and comix. Our style and approach is eclectic but committed. There are few other magazines where Noam Chomsky might appear next to Robert Burns, or John Knox may be invited to guest edit an issue examining Fidel Castro and the current state of feminism.

via www.thedrouth.org

 

Can't really do better than their own self-description. A worthy successor to the Peter Kravitz-edited era of The Edinburgh Review of the 80's, with quite a few of the same characters writing, and with the same wilful combination of global radical theory with an immersion in the detail of Scottish society, culture and crises. They have a bammily-arranged alphabetical selection of articles from the printed magazine (again, the sad reality of wood-pulp-and-ink mouldering unsold in bookshops, rather than editorial quality whizzing round the Net in viral fashion, seems like a misuse of editorial subsidy to us) which shows its depth and reach.