- Rory McDiarmid: Pagan Grady
- Davide Trame: End of the Year; Lap; Farmhouse; Half Smile
- Let messy books flourish: John J Regan argues that self-consciously academic writing is choking novels
- Aryan Kaganof: Tombstone Dues
- Enduring Love Actually: Anna Jane Barton detects a beguiling sort of nonsense
- Nalini Paul: Limbo; Gingko
- Les Wood: Nicol's Walk
- No offence: Kenneth Hodgart gets the boot into a government intent on doing our thinking for us
- Jamie M Johnston: Extract from The Confluence, a novel in progress
- John J Regan: Abroad; Canada Water; Execution
- Alan Bissett: A Hush's Worth of Paper
- Creative accounting: Kenneth Hodgart examines the quasi-religious store put on notions of diversity and creativity
- The death of liberalism in Pakistan: Persecuted poet and academic Omar Tarin bemoans the state of his beloved country
- John Bolland: Loch Culag
- Jazz: The music of radical politics in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. By Andrew Radford
- David Pettigrew: The Inheritance
- Alison Reid: The Back Room
- Kenneth Hodgart: Q & A with the artist known as Dimitri from Paris
- Jay Richardson: ?No-one Can Touch Me? - an interview with Mordechai Vanunu
- Harry Blythswood: Last Orders
- Ashok Niyogi: Poem Written in Darkness
- Into the Black Hole: John J Regan speaks to iconic graphic novelist Charles Burns
- Conrad Watts: The Lake
- Lisandra Sousa: Green Coffin; Hours; No Words
- Lady in exile: Guardian angel of 60s culture Barbara Hulanicki talks with Kenny Hodgart
- A Young man?s game: Martin Greig reports on the rise of US tennis prodigy Donald Young
- Stuart Mark: Police Aware
- John J Regan: Avril
- Lynsey Calderwood: Leesa Left Leg
- Alexander Cuthbert: The Day the BBC Shrunk Scotland; White-out
- Papa Osmubal: Neruda's Complaint
- Papa Osmubal: Neruda's Complaint
- Scott Malby: Lost Loves, Dirge Songs and Hymns - Part B