ALAN McGUIRE welcomes a biography of the French semiologist and philosopher
Liverpool’s sell-by date
CHRIS MOSS welcomes a radical history that brings marginalised stories and overlooked people and agencies to the centre
HONORABLE TRADITION OF PROTEST: Junior doctors on a picket line outside the Royal Liverpool Hospital, as thousands go on strike in a dispute with the government over new contracts, January 2016
ALEX HALL is frustrated by a book that ducks a clear definition of terrorism and fails to perceive the role of the state in sponsoring it
JOE GILL wholeheartedly recommends an eloquent manifesto: how to change the world one local project at a time
Inspired by a photograph, a unique memorial in Michigan immortalises US true labour heroes. MICHAL BONCZA recalls a great story rarely told
MARIA DUARTE, LEO BOIX and ANGUS REID review Brides, Dead of Winter, A Night Like This, and The Librarians
MARIA DUARTE is entertained by a wry portrait of befuddled resistance to US authoritarianism
Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain
Sam Wetherell, Head of Zeus, £25
USING Liverpool as a prism to reflect on the “unmaking” of Britain is a departure from most treatments of the city.
Liverpudlians have often represented themselves as apart from the nation, as internationalists and Atlanticists, as more Irish than English.
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