“LANARK, in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance. It is part of the system of whispers and sedition and direct communion, one voice to another, we call literature.”

—Janice Galloway, writing in 2002

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Glasgow belongs to us

When it was first published 20 years ago, Alasdair Gray's novel Lanark was hailed as a modern classic. Two decades on, Janice Galloway finds the book as exuberant and seditious as ever

The Guardian