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Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

Dr Lauren Alex O’Hagan explores the overlooked literary depth of Rory Gallagher’s lyrics, arguing for their place within a unique hardboiled blues tradition.

September 5, 2025
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Q&A with the author of The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures

C. Ceyhun Arslan discusses the inspiration behind his new book, and the surprises he encountered along the way.

Edinburgh University Press
May 2, 2024

Introducing From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes

by Walter Feldman Love is the Way and the Path of our Prophet. We are Love’s children, and Love is our Mother. Rumi These words echo down through the ages from when Mevlana (”Our Master”) Jalaluddin Rumi (d. 1273), first…

Helena Heald
August 25, 2022

Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

Q&A with the author of The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures

Introducing From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes

Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

How is this Philosophy?

Wicked Wild Wastes?: challenging contemporary ideas of wildness in Scottish Highland landscapes

Drawing away from the X assemblage

Professionalisation and the New Woman: Q&A with Riya Das, editor of the critical edition of Mona Caird’s The Daughters of Danaus