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I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.

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Elif Batuman

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The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.

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The first modern novel was already a product, even an expression, of negative criticism: ‘Don Quixote’ contains a quite explicit critique of the chivalric romance and its insufficiency to account for the way real life feels when you get up in the morning in 17th-century Spain.

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April 26, 2024

The first modern novel was already a product, even an expression, of negative criticism: ‘Don Quixote’ contains a quite explicit critique of the chivalric romance and its insufficiency to account for the way real life feels when you get up in the morning in 17th-century Spain.

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April 26, 2024

The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.

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