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Yesterday

A New History of Nostalgia
  • Tobias Becker
2023
Harvard University Press

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Featured Excerpts

  • Two 1950s cars in front of a diner
    Book Review

    You Can’t Go Home Again

    Our thinking about nostalgia is badly flawed because it relies on defective assumptions about progress and time.
    by Charlie Tyson via The Hedgehog Review on March 19, 2024
  • A turntable and records.
    Book Excerpt

    What’s Old is New Again (and Again): On the Cyclical Nature of Nostalgia

    Retro was not the antithesis to the sub- and countercultural experiments of the 1960s, it grew directly out of them.
    by Tobias Becker via Literary Hub on December 13, 2023
  • A photograph of the back of a woman's head, superimposed over a photograph of a body of water as if looking out over it.
    Book Review

    What if Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be?

    As our faith in the future plummets and the present blends with the past, we feel certain that we’ve reached the point where history has fallen apart.
    by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on November 20, 2023
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