Browse
Start from a world,
not a title.
Browse is for structured discovery when you know the kind of mood, place, medium, or corridor you want — but not the exact work. It should feel like opening a current, not scanning a taxonomy page.
Now showing
Against All Odds
15 curated works.
15 works available.
Curated works
Routes through Against All Odds
15 works selected across all media.
Themes in this selection
Routes through the index
Screen to page
Books that echo Against All Odds
Books
Potiki
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and South Asia.
📖
Books
Against the Odds
Carries a strong pull into anime through folklore and identity.
Listening lane
Albums in this field
🎵
Music
Stand Up Against Gravity
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
🎵
Music
Park Avenue
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
Interpretive layer
Idea lines behind this surface
Bring interpretation forward so the route reads with more clarity, pressure, and argument.
Essays
Against Interpretation
Carries a strong pull into books through resistance and South Asia.
Essays
The Myth of Sisyphus
Carries a strong pull into books through folklore and identity.
Continue the route
📖
Books · Strong bridge
Potiki
1980s
A Māori community defends its land against development. Oral tradition and communal memory as resistance.
🎵
Music · Strong bridge
Against the Odds
2010s
⛩
Anime · Strong bridge
Neon Genesis Evangelion
1990s
Children pilot giant robots against angels. Depression, religion, and the deconstruction of mecha.
🎬
Film · Strong bridge
Sansho the Bailiff
1950s
A mother and her children separated by slavery in feudal Japan. Compassion against cruelty.
Refine
Narrow by medium, or pivot to a new theme.
Active themes
Also in the field
Further works the current touches.
📝
Essays 1960s
Against Interpretation
"'Against Interpretation' was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, among them "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp", and the t...
📖
Books
Against the Odds
2000 novel by Elizabeth Moon
🎵
Music 1990s
Park Avenue
⛩
Anime 2010s
Angel Beats!
Dead teenagers in a purgatory school rebel against God. Comedy, action, and devastating endings.
Film 2010s
5 Broken Cameras
A Palestinian farmer documents the weekly protests against the barrier through five cameras, each destroyed by soldiers. Oscar-nominated and viscerally direct.
📝
Essays 1940s
The Myth of Sisyphus
One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Absurdism's manifesto against despair.