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  • Issue 39

Think Back

A reexamination of nostalgia.
Words by Rhian Sasseen. Artwork by Katrien De Blauwer.

Youth may be wasted on the young but that doesn’t mean the young are impervious to the siren call of nostalgia. That’s what the Canadian cultural critic David Berry argues in his 2020 book On Nostalgia, which sifts through a wide array of history, art and pop culture to examine just what nostalgia really means, and why it affects 20-year-olds and 80-year-olds just the same. Over Zoom, Berry explains the dual nature of nostalgia and why today, with the influence

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This story is from Kinfolk Issue Thirty-Nine

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