Richard Appignanesi is an editor of Third Text and reviews editor of the future studies journal Futures. He was a co-founder and editorial director of Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative and Icon Books. He has served as a curator, lecturer and conference organiser for the British Council. He is the author of the fiction trilogy Italia Perversa: Stalin’s Orphans, The Mosque and Destroying America (1983–1985), the novel Yukio Mishima’s Report to the Emperor (2003) and other non-fiction writings.