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OUR renewed freedom to hug reminds Gilbert MacKay, from Newton Mearns, of a university class where one of his fellow students was called Fred, while…

Crackpot castingGLASGOW rock star Bobby Gillespie has rather surprisingly revealed he wants the Italian actress Monica Bellucci to play him if a…

IN the era before email, unlucky teachers sometimes discovered a slip of paper in their staffroom dookit. This form was known as a YUFTI, which translated as: "Yufti take another class". The necessary details began with the expression ‘please take’. Teacher Gordon Fisher from Stewarton recalls one Monday morning when there had been a terrible outbreak of hangovers (sorry, serious illness), and a frazzled depute was frantically trying to cover classes. Gordon didn't ease the depute’s stress when he handed back his "please take" emblazoned "No thanks." This chap shot Gordon an a...

The Paris Review: The Flagellants, the American writer Carlene Hatcher Polite’s debut novel, is one of those out-of-print books that’s been lurking in the corner of my eye for the past few years. First published by Christian Bourgois éditeur as  Les Flagellants in Pierre Alien’s 1966 French translation, and then in its original English the following year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, the book details the stormy relationship between Ideal and Jimson, a Black couple in New York City. The narrative is largely made up of a series of stream of consciousness orations. Polite’s prose is f...