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If “culture” means new books, new exhibitions, new music and cinema and so on, 2020 was a good year for culture. Defined almost any other way, 2020 was a terrible year for culture as it was for pretty much everything else. As I think about 2020, what I immediately remember about the last 346 days isn’t culture at all. Somehow, I doubt I’m the only one.
When I’ve talked about the quarantine with my friends, the one thing we’ve all agreed on is that time worked differently: This has been the longest year of our lives, and also one of the shortest. “Don’t think of it as waiting!” someone told me long ago. This was good advice at the time (our ride was late), but how else was I supposed to think of “it” this year? I waited to buy food, I waited to send mail, I waited hours to get tested for a cureless disease and then I waited weeks to get the results of my test. I waited in lines and read or pretended to read; one time I sneezed and people reacted as if a bomb h