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The Global Novel: Mediations
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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 workplace, the school, the legal system and so forth, the novels we have in mind aspire to live not only outside the language in which they were written but also beyond the printed page in film, television series, comic books, audiobooks, electronic games, and so forth. In that a good number of these novels quite literally attempt to escape the material confines of the medium, they require us to figur
8 N.J. women whose lives have been upended by the COVID pandemic
Updated Mar 15, 2021;
Posted Mar 15, 2021
Eight women from New Jersey whose lives have been upended in one way or another. They are (from left to right, top) Carla Draper, Carole Dubois, Bindu Balani, Carly Riordan, and (bottom left to right) Michelle Maldonado, Lata Annayya, Alissa Dirato and Maritza Beniquez
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A teacher working remotely while also trying desperately to protect her elderly mother. A restaurant owner who watched business dry up.
A doctor treating a tsunami of COVID-19 patients, including some from her own family. A child welfare worker who worries about the kids she’s paid to help, and the ones she leaves at home.
The Drinks Business
17 December 2020 By Lucy Shaw
Ebullient Scot and consummate raconteur Jeremy Lee is the head chef of Quo Vadis in Soho, where his smoked eel sarnies have become legendary. Inspired and influenced by British food writer Elizabeth David, Lee’s big break came when he landed a job at Sir Terence Conran’s Bibendum on the Fulham Road in the ‘80s, where he worked under Simon Hopkinson. In 1994 he was made head chef of Conran’s Blueprint Café at the Design Museum in Shad Thames, where he was given free rein with the menu. He moved to Quo Vadis in 2012, where he champions British produce and cooks according to the season. He’s known for his generous portions.