Rita Dove, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, and a contributor to Issue 6 of Interlitq, attends (Kaeisha O’Neal, News One for Black America, 03.05.12) a gala event at the Plaza Hotel in New York to honour the Civil Rights advocate Professor Julian Bond, whose grandfather was born a slave

Rita Dove, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, and a contributor to Issue 6 of Interlitq, has attended (Kaeisha O’Neal, News One for Black America, 03.05.12) a gala event at the Plaza Hotel in New York to honour the Civil Rights advocate Professor Julian Bond, whose grandfather was born a slave.

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« Sari Nusseibeh, the Palestinian philosopher who is the Vice-President of Interlitq, has been cited in “Have the Palestinians Despaired of the Two-State Formula?” (Gilead Sher and Zaki Shalom, Canada Free Press, 02.05.12): “Unlike Abu Alaa, Nusseibeh does not absolve the PA of responsibility, and along with blame on Israel he claims that ‘it took us, the Palestinians, a long time to accept that we should recognize Israel as a state’”

Writing in The Chronicle Review 06.05.12, in her article “Don’t Pick Up: why kids need to separate from their parents”, Terry Castle cites Julia Kristeva, the Bulgarian-French philosopher who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq: “Julia Kristeva remarks somewhere (my wording may not be exact) that ‘in every bourgeois family group there is one child who has a soul’. And thus we meet them, in novel after novel: not only those who go literally motherless and fatherless, but also the children ‘with souls’ who, for precisely that reason, will be persecuted by their foolish parents or parental stand-ins; ostracized, abused, made to submit to some hellish moral and spiritual reaming-out. Ruthlessly, imperviously, the realistic novels of the 18th and 19th centuries compulsively foreground this ‘orphaning’ of the psyche; shape it into parable, and in so doing (I think) dramatize the painful birth of the modern subject—that radically deracinated being, vital yet alone, who goes undefined by kinship, caste, class, or visible membership in a group” »