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  • Why family ties in Kūfa mattered for early Islamic politics

    Aliya A Ali explores how kinship and marriage alliances shaped political power and governance in the early Islamic city of Kūfa.

    September 25, 2025
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Understanding Wang Zengqi’s Subtle Art of Fiction: Is It Beyond Translation’s Reach?

by Tao Peng Why Do Chinese Readers Like Wang Zengqi? During Wang Zengqi’s (1920–1997) lifetime, his works were not yet bestsellers in bookstores across China as they are today, nor were there as many academic articles discussing their literary value.…

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  • January 20, 2025

Q&A with Ruth M. McAdams, author of Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature

by Ruth M. McAdams Tell us a bit about your book. Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature is about what happened when Victorians looked around for signs of the historical progress that was allegedly taking place on a broad scale.…

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  • January 18, 2025

Children, Charity and Magazines

A Q&A with the author of Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The Charitable Child.

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  • December 18, 2024

AVANT-GARDES INVENTED IN AUSTRALIA!

Did Australia invent the idea of the avant-garde?

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  • December 16, 2024
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EUP 75: Our Publishing in Language & Linguistics

Explore the journey of Language & Linguistics publishing at Edinburgh University Press from the 1990s to our latest releases.

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  • December 5, 2024

W. B. Yeats’s late-career engagement with the Irish language poetry of dispossession

Cora Crampton explores a lesser-known aspect of W. B. Yeats’s oeuvre - his collaboration with Frank O’Connor in the translation of Irish language poetry during the 1930s.

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  • November 26, 2024

An Interview with David Rando, author of On Fiction and Being a Good Animal

by David Rando Tell us a bit about On Fiction and Being a Good Animal. On Fiction and Being a Good Animal begins with a question: what if fiction could help us to become not better people but better animals?…

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  • November 7, 2024

5 Things I Learned About William Lindsay Gresham

by G. Connor Salter I knew that he put the word “geek” into popular culture with his 1946 novel Nightmare Alley. Beyond that, the only thing I knew when I started researching William Lindsay Gresham was that his ex-wife, Joy…

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  • October 17, 2024

Shakespeare Teachers Strike Back: Three strategies for engaging in politically responsive pedagogy in the age of (another) DEI backlash

by Marissa Greenberg and Elizabeth Williamson Perhaps the greatest challenge facing US institutions of higher education is the tension between an increasingly diverse student body and an inherently (and inherited) homogenous curriculum. “Meeting today’s students where they are” is a…

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  • September 17, 2024
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