“Inside the tiny community of English master thatchers, a fight is unfolding over a tradition that may not survive.”
nostalgia
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The Hardy Men
“Why is a right-wing press reissuing century-old adolescent mystery novels?”
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Our Longing for Inconvenience
“The modern world has made us ill-equipped for the nuisances of past technologies, even as it has fuelled nostalgia for things that might transport us back to calmer times.”
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Pizza Supreme
“Pizza Hut Classic is fast becoming a cultural obsession. I spent a day at one to find out why.”
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Recurring Screens
“A screen saver periodically smokes the locusts out, thereby saving the screen from the disfigurement of monotony.”
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Solastalgia
“Pleasant memories of places past: that’s nostalgia. But what do you call the grief that comes when the modern world leaves nary a trace of the place that raised you?”
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In the Ruins of Palisades Fire, Confronting My Elusive Malibu Life
“Memories, nostalgia and regret mix on a trek to find the old family home.”