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A New Life
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and after-hours.
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There There
Carries a strong pull into film through power and longing.
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A New Life of Painful Sin
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Future of Nostalgia
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and South Asia.
Essays
Chaos: Making a New Science
Carries a strong pull into books through James Gleick and South Asia.
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The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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A Little Life
2010s
Four college friends in New York. Trauma, love, and the limits of friendship across decades.
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A New Life of Painful Sin
1990s
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Kino's Journey
2000s
After running away from the grim future that awaited her back in her home country, a young girl takes upon a new name and identity—inspired by the man who sacrificed his life to help her escape. Alongside her newfound companion, a talking motorcycle, the two find themselves a new home in the forest—where lives an el...
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Film 2000s
A Prophet
A young Arab man rises through the French prison system. Crime cinema as sociological study.
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Essays 1980s
Chaos: Making a New Science
Fractals, butterfly effects, and the science of unpredictability. Gleick's narrative of how chaos theory rewired modern thinking.
Television 2010s
Special
Special is an American comedy-drama television series created by Ryan O'Connell for Netflix. Starring Ryan O'Connell, the series is a semi-autobiographical account of his life as a gay man in Los Angeles with cerebral palsy pursuing new friendships, relationships, and self-sufficiency.
Books 1960s
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens and prostitutes. An unforgettable cast of characters inhabits the housing projects, bars and streets of Brooklyn: Georgette, a hopelessly romantic and tormented transvestite; Vinnie, a disaffected and volatile youth wh...
Anime 1990s
Only Yesterday
Aoba Riku has just transferred to a new high school because of his father's job, and things aren't quite what he expected. The headmaster's secretary controls the school while espousing the virtues of academic freedom, the teachers are even stranger than normal teachers, and half the student body is walking around w...
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Film 1960s
Cléo from 5 to 7
Two hours in the life of a singer awaiting medical results. Time, beauty, and mortality in Paris.