Svetlana Boym on Nostalgia

To The Best Of Our Knowledge
Listen nowDownload file
Embed player

Svetlana Boym, author of “The Future of Nostalgia,” tells Anne Strainchamps that nostalgia was invented in the 17th century and seen as an actual physical condition for the next century of so. People don’t think it’s a disease anymore, but nostalgia’s still going strong. Boym says it’s even invaded cyberspace.