Readings

Considering Putin's Russia—a “terrifying fairytale,” says Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova—you might get wistful, as Francis Spufford does in Red Plenty, for a time when communism seemed every bit the fantasy Khrushchev made it out to be.

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Disneyland was founded on nostalgia for an idyll that never existed—but when it comes to designing human happiness, maybe imagining the golden past makes for a better future.