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| Title | Date published | ||
| New Thinking: Shakespeare's Life Lessons | 2021-04-21 | ||
| The Essay New Generation Thinkers Jean Rhys's Dress | 2021-04-20 | ||
| Maryse Condé's writing plus Suzanne O'Sullivan | 2021-04-20 | ||
| New Generation Thinkers: The Feurtado's Fire | 2021-04-19 | ||
| The Battle of Culloden, Outlander, Peter Watkins | 2021-04-15 | ||
| Jacques Tati's Trafic | 2021-04-14 | ||
| Octavia Butler's Kindred | 2021-04-13 | ||
| Deleuze and Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia | 2021-04-08 | ||
| Milton: Samson Agonistes | 2021-04-08 | ||
| John Milton's Samson Agonistes | 2021-04-07 | ||
| The Liverpool Biennial debate | 2021-04-06 | ||
| Spy talk | 2021-04-01 | ||
| From Blackface to Beyoncé | 2021-03-31 | ||
| Writing About Faith | 2021-03-30 | ||
| Churchill's reputation | 2021-03-25 | ||
| Pleasure | 2021-03-24 | ||
| Frantz Fanon | 2021-03-23 | ||
| Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There | 2021-03-19 | ||
| Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer | 2021-03-18 | ||
| Syria: hope and poetry | 2021-03-18 |