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A Fine Balance
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Television
The Bear
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
Television
Show Me a Hero
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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Music
A Love Supreme
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and power.
Music
A Seat at the Table
Carries a strong pull into television through power and after-hours.
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Essays
A Room of One's Own
Carries a strong pull into film through identity and South Asia.
Essays
A Theory of Justice
Carries a strong pull into film through power and South Asia.
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Television · Strong bridge
The Bear
2020s
A fine-dining chef takes over his brother's sandwich shop. Grief, pressure, and kitchen anxiety.
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Music · Strong bridge
A Love Supreme
1960s
A four-part spiritual suite. Jazz as prayer, devotion, and transcendence.
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Anime · Strong bridge
March Comes in Like a Lion
2010s
A teenage shogi prodigy battles loneliness and depression. Found family and quiet resilience.
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Film · Strong bridge
A Clockwork Orange
1970s
Ultra-violence and behavioral conditioning. Free will versus state control in a dystopian Britain.
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Essays 1920s
A Room of One's Own
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write. Feminism's foundational essay.
Television 2010s
Show Me a Hero
A mayor battles public housing integration in Yonkers. Policy as tragedy.
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Books 1990s
A Suitable Boy
A mother searches for a husband for her daughter in 1950s India. 1,349 pages of post-independence life.
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Music 2010s
A Seat at the Table
Black womanhood, anger, and healing. R&B as political and personal manifesto.
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Anime 2010s
A Place Further Than the Universe
Four girls journey to Antarctica. Friendship, loss, and the courage to leave.
Film 2000s
A Mighty Wind
Three folk groups reunite for a memorial concert. Christopher Guest's mockumentary finds unexpected warmth inside the joke.