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The coming boom in global stories
5 mins | Jun 10, 2020
When our wanderlust is frustrated, culture offers the escapism we crave. "It has taken until this week to understand what is going on here. Now that foreign travel is impossible or unpleasant, I crave a vicarious form of it. I want to see and read about the world that is no longer mine to roam." Janan Ganesh, writing in the Financial Times, predicts a global boom of storytelling.