The Baffler (no. 31) Contents
Killing Time History Fake Out
John Summers
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From the Archive
The Nostalgia Gap
Tom Vanderbilt
Conversation
Tick Tock
Rick Perlstein and Daniel Tucker
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9
Memory Holes Memoryland
Mark Dancey True Fakes on Location
World-building, Hollywood-style
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36
Tom Carson Where the Wild Things Aren’t: National Parks 50
Nathan C. Martin The Slippery Slopes
A dispatch from the birthplace of neoliberalism
Ola Morris Innset Exit Planning
Thomas Geoghegan Confession Booth
The trouble with the trauma industry
Amber A’lee Frost The Naked City
You can no longer get there from here
Melissa Gira Grant
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96
106
Ozymandias
Delusion at the Gastropub
On the foodie devolution
Heather Havrilesky Knock Yourselves Out
“Punching up” in American comedy
Ben Schwartz W(h)ither the New Sensibility?
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Rochelle Gurstein Metropolitan Museum of Rot
The shrinking future of the American City
James Howard Kunstler
168
Poems
Sorrow Is My Own Yard 34
Danniel Schoonebeek Why so angry, Bluto?
Martha McCollough All the Answers I Ask
David Winter Artemisia Mourns Her Husband
Sarah Pearl Heard After I Die
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Miriam Bird Greenberg Narrated by Leonard Nimoy 147
Michael Lynch Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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