Confirmation of new Interlitq Consulting Editors with effect from Issue 9

The Board of Editors of “The International Literary Quarterly” is delighted to confirm the incorporation of the following distinguished figures from the fields of literature and the arts as Consulting Editors of the review with effect from Issue 9:  Frank Ankersmit, Reza Aslan, Michael Barry, Jean Boase-Beier, Mario Biagioli, Stanley Cavell, Hollis Clayson, Sarah Churchwell, Kristina Cordero, Drucilla Cornell, André Dombrowski, Klaus Ebner, Orlando Figes, Nancy Fraser, Maureen Freely, Michael Fried, Lydia Goehr, Lawrence Grossberg, Elizabeth Grosz, Valerie Henitiuk, Martin Kern, Joseph Koerner, Mabel Lee, Linda Leith, Edie Meidav, Jack Miles, Laura Mulvey, Azar Nafisi, Sari Nusseibeh, Clare Pettitt, Robert Pinsky, François Rigolot, Carla Sassi, Hadaa Sendoo, Miranda Seymour, Mimi Sheller, Elaine Showalter, Penelope Shuttle, Julian Stallabrass, Marjorie Trusted, Lidia Vianu, Victor Vitanza, David Wellbery.

Michael Scammell’s authorized biography of Arthur Koestler to be published by Random House in December, 2009

“Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic“, the first authorized biography of Arthur Koestler by Michael Scammell, a Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University, recipient of the English PEN Non-fiction Prize for best biography of 1984 for “Solzhenitsyn: A Biography”, and a Consulting Editor of ”The International Literary Quarterly”, will be published by Random House on December 29th, 2009.

Sarah Churchwell to be a Consulting Editor of Interlitq

The Editors of “The International Literary Quarterly” are delighted to announce that Dr Sarah Churchwell, Senior Lecturer at the School of American Studies at the University of East Anglia, author of works such as “The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe”, who writes regularly for publications such as the “TLS” and “The New York Times Book Review”, and who is a regular panelist on “Newsnight Review”, has kindly agreed to act as a Consulting Editor of the review with effect from Issue 9.

Praise for Rebecca Stott’s latest novel, “The Coral Thief”

Writing in her blog, “Book Group of One” on September 28th, 2009, Carol Wallace is impressed with “The Coral Thief”, the new novel by Rebecca Stott, the novelist and academic, author of the novel “Ghostwalk”, critical works such as “The Fabrication of the Late Victorian Femme Fatale”, and “Darwin and the Barnacle”, a partial biography of Charles Darwin, a Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and a Consulting Editor of “The International Literary Quarterly”. Wallace admires the fact that Stott “brilliantly conjures up the dizzying disorder of a France in flux” and goes on to write that the ”research is impeccable without being showy” and that “the prose is lean and the pacing tight”.

Michael Barry to be a Consulting Editor of Interlitq

The Editors of “The International Literary Quarterly” are delighted to announce that Michael Barry, a lecturer in Islamic Culture at Princeton University, also Consultative Chairman of the Department of Islamic Art at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and author of many works including “Le Pavillon des sept princesses”, his French-language verse translation of the 12th-century Persian poet Nizâmî’s “Haft Paykar” and which was awarded the Iranian Government’s Prize of Book of the Year on Persian Civilization in 2002, a French-language monograph on Afghanistan, “Le Royaume de l’Insolence: l’Afghanistan 1504-2001”, a French-language biography, “Massoud- de l’ islamisme à la liberté” (awarded the “Prix Fémina” in 2002) and “A History of Modern Afghanistan”, has kindly agreed to act as a Consulting Editor of the review with effect from Issue 9.