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New Generation Thinkers: The Feurtado's Fire
Claude Mackay the Haarlem poet wrote about his experiences of an earthquake in Kingston in 1907. Twenty years earlier the city was putting itself bac…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Battle of Culloden, Outlander, Peter Watkins
16 April 1746, the Jacobite rising was quelled by the Duke of Cumberland's army at the Battle of Culloden. Marking this anniversary here's a chance t…
4 years, 9 months ago
Jacques Tati's Trafic
Monsieur Hulot is a car designer who takes a chaotic journey to an auto-show in Amsterdam to show off his prototype in this comic film from 1971. It'…
4 years, 9 months ago
Octavia Butler's Kindred
"A hermit in the middle of Los Angeles" is one way she described herself - born in 1947, Butler became a writer who wanted to "tell stories filled wi…
4 years, 9 months ago
Deleuze and Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a major text of French poststructuralist thought by Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Made up of the two volumes Anti…
4 years, 9 months ago
Milton: Samson Agonistes
Blind, and with his hair cut and his strength shorn - in Milton's dramtic poem Samson has already been betrayed by Delilah. It goes on to explore ide…
4 years, 9 months ago
John Milton's Samson Agonistes
Blind, and with his hair cut and his strength shorn - in Milton's dramtic poem Samson has already been betrayed by Delilah. It goes on to explore ide…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Liverpool Biennial debate
Slavery and empire building shaped Liverpool's development. Can art works help give a new understanding of the city's history? In a discussion organi…
4 years, 9 months ago
Spy talk
One Cold War spy has his story retold by journalist Simon Kuper, while the granddaughter of another - Charlotte Philby - writes novels that explore t…
4 years, 9 months ago
From Blackface to Beyoncé
Hanif Abdurraqib, the American poet and essayist, has written a book in praise of black performance challenging stereotypes and recovering figures in…
4 years, 9 months ago