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Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher
Read more: Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory GallagherDr Lauren Alex O’Hagan explores the overlooked literary depth of Rory Gallagher’s lyrics, arguing for their place within a unique hardboiled blues tradition.
The Long March of Feminism

By Catherine Riley and Lynne Pearce We were completing the edits on Feminism and Women’s Writing: An Introduction at the end…
Intergenerational Desire in/and Children’s Literature

It is with some trepidation, but also with a great sense of urgency, that we present a modest collection of…
Warwick Ball on the cultural diversity of Afghanistan

It is a pleasure to see the launch of the first issue of Afghanistan, a journal to showcase the country’s…
Utopia: A round-table discussion

Sir Thomas More (1477 – 1535) was the first person to write of a ‘utopia’, a word used to describe…
The Douglass family and the roots of activism and social justice

By Celeste-Marie Bernier and Andrew Taylor Frederick Douglass. Just the name alone is enough to inspire us to think of…
Commercial Agriculture and Law Reform in Nigeria

My article “Promoting Commercial Agriculture in Nigeria Through a Reform of the Legal and Institutional Frameworks” in African Journal of International…
Reading the Times: Temporality and History in Twentieth-Century Fiction

By Randall Stevenson On Bastille Day, 2000, why did 3 million people sit down to a picnic lunch along a…
7 things you should know about the destruction of graves in the Islamic world

By Ondrej Beranek and Pavel Tupek 1) Over the past years and decades, various parts of the Islamic world –…
Ezra Pound’s “The Cantos”, Pedagogy and Poetics

‘The Cantos and Pedagogy Forum’ in Volume 12 Issue 3 of Modernist Cultures consists of a research-length article by my colleague,…