Arts Journalism and the Gap in Scottish Cultural Commentary

"[it} is not a failure of individuals but an acute absence of forms: the forms in which serious analytical cultural commentary might actually be written, and where it might still find its readers. The gap left by the disappearance of several ‘little magazines’ (among them Chapman, the Edinburgh Review, and the Scottish Review of Books) has not been filled [although arguably replaced by Bella, The Skinny, or Scots Wha Hae? – Ed]. There is serious cultural commentary out there, but much of it exists in disparate online spaces, which makes it difficult to track and erodes any sense of a national cultural conversation.