Book Review ‘The Nineties’: Chuck Klosterman Explores How Much Decade Mattered

It takes 20 years or so for an era’s uniqueness to become visible, so despite recent distractions, now is the time to ask: What was special about the 1990s, and what remains of them?

It wasn’t that long ago, and yet when you cast your mind back to that time, as Chuck Klosterman does in The Nineties, life really was appreciably different. Klosterman on what the telephone used to mean:

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It takes 20 years or so for an era’s uniqueness to become visible, so despite recent distractions, now is the time to ask: What was special about the 1990s, and what remains of them?

It wasn’t that long ago, and yet when you cast your mind back to that time, as Chuck Klosterman does in The Nineties, life really was appreciably different. Klosterman on what the telephone used to mean: