Strangers and Intimates

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Notes, essays, & reflections on our times, museums, art, history, & the shifting dynamics of public & private life. Inspired by my forthcoming book, Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life. Spoiler alert: Big Tech did not kill privacy.

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About Strangers and Intimates

Tiffany Jenkins. Author, Keeping Their Marbles; Contesting Human Remains. Presenter, The History of Secrecy (BBC Radio 4). Coming soon, Strangers & Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life (Picador).

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