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'I am always seeking new means of expression and, step by step, I am discovering almost unlimited possibilities with loosened gelatin. ...My work places "body pictures" in new situations, new contexts, new realities, causing their open "authentic" reality to become relative. I am interested in questions of moral and inner freedom. ' - Michal Macku

'Why can't I be a post-modern writer? Why can't I embrace irony and write "mash-up" novels, or put the world in quotation marks and ironically "deconstruct" daily life?' - Ewan Morrison

Our current issue, Czech, pursues themes of self-knowledge and alienation, home and exile.

Essayist and critic William Hazlitt once commented: 'To be an Edinburgh Reviewer is, I suspect, the highest rank in modern literary society.' Numbered among our nineteenth-century contributors were Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle and William Ewart Gladstone; more recently, James Kelman, Janice Galloway, A.L. Kennedy, Kei Miller, Tom Leonard, Meaghan Delahunt and Tracey Emin have all contributed to the journal.

The current editor, Brian McCabe, continues the practice of presenting work by established and emergent writers. Under his editorship which began in 2006 while he was Writer-in-Residence at Edinburgh University, each issue offers a view into a particular culture or region.

Born in 1802 in the Buccleuch Place lodgings of its founding editor, Francis Jeffrey, the Review swiftly transformed the landscape of literary criticism.