Interlitq is delighted to announce that its poem in English for 30.01.12 will be “Waiting” by New Zealand author Karen Zelas, a contributor to Issue 11 of Interlitq.

In a recent interview with The Futurist, the Iranian author Azar Nafisi, the Iranian academic, writer, and implacable fighter for women’s rights, here talking about human rights’ abuses in Iran, and who is also a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, states that “the history of the West in Iran is one of cultural and economic exploitation” and later affirms that she wants “people to come to Iran through Firdausi, a poet”.

En un video reciente, Elena Poniatowska, autora de La noche de Tlatelolco,  Nada, nadie: Las voces del temblor y novelas incluyendo La piel del cielo, y una Editora Consultora de Interlitq, habla de la comisión “MORENA Cultura”, formada para promover la cultura nacional en México y sostiene que la educación tiene que ser el baluarte de este emprendimiento.

“Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten: Great Shakespearians”, a volume focusing on Shakespeare’s reception by the major composer, edited by Daniel Albright, the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University, editor of “Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources”, author of many works including “Beckett and Aesthetics” , “Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism” and “Stravinsky: The Music-Box and the Nightingale”, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq and a contributor to Issue 4 of Interlitq, will be published by Continuum in March 2012.

In a recent video filmed at the Chicago Humanities Festival, Hollis Clayson, the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University, whose works include “Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era” and “Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life Under Siege (1870-71)”, and who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, discusses the influence of artificial light on Parisian impressionist artists and foreign artists living in Paris in the nineteenth century.

In a recent video, Elena Poniatowska, recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation, whose many works include the books of reportage La noche de Tlatelolco and Nada, nadie: Las voces del temblor and novels including La piel del cielo, and who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, discusses “MORENA Cultura”, the Commission that has been formed in Mexico to promote national culture and states that this endeavour must commence at the grass-roots of education.

In an interview, Martha Nussbaum, the American philosopher who is currently Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, and who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, discusses the story of Euripides’s Hecuba and what she terms the “fragility of goodness”, stating in the process “to be a good human being is to have an openness to the world—an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances”.

Prunella Clough: Regions Unmapped by Frances Spalding, the art historian, critic and biographer, a Professor of Art History at Newcastle University, author of many works including “Roger Fry: Art and Life” , “British Art since 1900″ and  “Duncan Grant: A Biography”, and who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, is to be published by Lund Humphries in March 2012.

Herewith further information concerning the publication:

“As the 2007 Prunella Clough exhibition at Tate testified, Clough (1919-1999) was one of the best and most original artists to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century. This book celebrates this female artist’s outstanding contribution to British art providing, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of Prunella Clough’s entire career.

Situating the development of Clough’s art within the trajectory of her life, Frances Spalding explores the key themes and inspirations that informed the artist’s work. Frances Spalding’s unique access to previously unpublished letters, a journal which Clough kept in the late 1940s and notebooks from the artist’s visits around England, ensures that this highly readable artist monograph of Clough’s life and work breaks new ground.

Important themes such as her interest in Surrealism, Neo-Romanticism and Abstract Expressionism, run alongside debates, such as the artist’s position within the English art scene and her critical reception. Her relationship with her aunt, designer and architect Eileen Gray, is given due attention, as are other key alliances in her life.

Prunella Clough: Regions Unmapped will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers, from those with a general interest in the artist and the period to curators, collectors, dealers and academics.”

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”, author of “Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic” and who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, discusses in a recent audio interview with Richard Handler, the life and work of Arthur Koestler.

In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys by Campbell McGrath, the American poet who has published eight collections of poetry including “Seven Notebooks”, who has been awarded many prestigious awards including the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award”, and who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, will be published by Harper Collins in February, 2012.