Writing on Nostalgia

Nostalgia is one of my main areas of research. Here is some of my writing about it.

how to watch a ‘90s movie

If nostalgia tends to rise from our unhappiness with the present, and if it’s most often expressed as a romanticization of the past, how do we separate this from an understanding that parts of the past were, generally, better?

the mason jar pickle

They’re everywhere: in your fancy cocktail bar and your down home country restaurant. In the hands of farmer’s market shoppers and 7-Eleven Slurpee slurpers.

the nostalgic history of hillbilly tv

There is the South. But there is also“the South” — the version of our region conjured by television executives.