Review and Response to “The Future of Nostalgia” by Svetlana Boym

This is not a new book. It was published in 2001. And in 2015 the author passed away. But I found this book to be timely none the less. After all, the author was dealing with a topic that is timeless — nostalgia.

Boym’s main focus is to look at nostalgia through the lens of the post Cold War world, looking at specific cities and how they transitioned into the post-Cold War era and their use and dealing with nostalgia — sometimes helpful and sometimes not.