Stephen Greenblatt, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, awarded (PRI, 17.04.12) the Pulitzer Prize for excellence in nonfiction for his book “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, which narrates the story of the ancient Roman poet Lucretius and how Lucretius’ poems helped catalyze Renaissance thinking

Stephen Greenblatt, the literary critic, theorist and scholar who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been awarded (PRI, 17.04.12) the Pulitzer Prize for excellence in nonfiction for his book The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which narrates the story of the ancient Roman poet Lucretius and how Lucretius’ poems helped catalyze Renaissance thinking.

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« In Shanghaiist, 22.04.12, Jonathan Mirsky of The New York Review of Books reflects on the recent London Book Fair, beset by criticism of the decision by the British Council to allow China’s General Administration of Press and Publications, the government body that regulates and censors print media, to have full say over which writers to invite to the fair. and goes on to invoke Gao Xingjian, a contributor to Issue 4 of Interlitq: “At the information desk, staffed by young Chinese women studying in the UK, I asked whether Gao Xingjian, the Nobel Laureate, would be speaking. None had heard of him. I said he lived just over the Channel in Paris. One of the young women said: ‘Then he’s not a Chinese, right?’ I said he was indeed, had lived most of his life there, and had resigned from the Party. They looked embarrassed”

A.C. Grayling, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, remains buoyant (“A C Grayling puts a brave face on Steve Jones’s withdrawal from his university”, The Telegraph, 16.04.12) following the withdrawal, on the grounds of “scheduling issues” of Professor Steve Jones, initially a founding member of Grayling’s New College of the Humanities »