This is the first time works have been on display from the bequest gifted by him to Glasgow Life Museums following the death ...

Poor Things, Gray’s prize-winning 1992 novel, purports to be “Episodes from the early life of Archibald McCandless MD, Scottish Public Health… ...

Filled with sex, violence, and perverse scientific experiments, several Poor Things scenes have shocked and thrilled ...

Film of Alasdair Gray's Poor Things doesn't suffer from London setting or its 'male gaze' – Laura Waddell. ... Back in 2017, I guest-edited for a day the online magazine Bella Caledonia.

Bella, a 25-year-old woman who, after committing suicide, is reanimated with the brain of her unborn infant, is the daring and unusual creation of Alasdair Gray, whose 1992 novel was adapted for ...

Gray’s novel is told through the opposing viewpoints of Bella’s husband, Dr. Archibald McCandless, and Bella herself (or maybe Victoria) who disputes her husband’s accounts as nonsense.

Poor Things, by Alasdair Gray (Harvest Books, $10.95).Scottish novelist Alasdair Gray’s “Poor Things” re-creates the scientific Gothicism of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein drama with the tale ...

The biggest challenge for “Poor Things” costume designer Holly Waddington was trying to establish a costume arc for Emma Stone’s Bella Baxter. In the Searchlight film based on Alasdair Gray ...

That would be Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel, “the most sheerly entertaining pseudo-Victorian romance since A.S. Byatt’s ‘Possession,’” as I put it in my 1993 review of the American edition.