Story
Leo Löwenthal worked in the Frankfurt circle as the man who took novels and magazines seriously. If Horkheimer built the institute, Löwenthal helped teach it how to read a bestseller.
Exile did not thin the habit. He kept asking what a popular story is doing to the people who love it — a small, stubborn job that outlasted the century that needed it.
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