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Russia: Death of Lev Rubinstein, poet and dissident, critic of the Kremlin. He was hit on January 8, 2024 by a motorist while crossing a street in Moscow, then hospitalized in a serious condition. The poet had made no secret of his views hostile to the Putin regime, denouncing political repression, human rights violations, and participating in opposition demonstrators. He signed an open letter calling the Russian army's large-scale attack on Ukraine a "criminal war" and castigating the Kremlin's "lies"

The Global Novel: Mediations   Hours: M 5:05-7:45 Nancy Armstrong, Roberto Dainotto Louis Althusser is known to have said that “ideology represents individuals’ imaginary relation to their real conditions of existence.” Assuming that statement is a pretty good fit for traditional literary realism as well, we feel it is time to rephrase this principle for the global novel — which would go something like this: “the global novel represents individuals’ imaginary relation to forms of mediation.” Rather than refer to life beyond the page as one organized around the home, the workpl...