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Being John Malkovich
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A Tale for the Time Being
Carries a strong pull into anime through power and folklore.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Carries a strong pull into film through power and South Asia.
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Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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If You're Feeling Sinister
Carries a strong pull into film through power and after-hours.
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Between the World and Me
Carries a strong pull into film through power and identity.
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Being and Nothingness
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and South Asia.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
1990s
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a young adult coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky, which was first published on February 1, 1999, by Pocket Books. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted observing teenager, through his freshman year of high school in a Pitts...
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If You're Feeling Sinister
1990s
If You're Feeling Sinister is the second album by the Scottish indie pop band Belle and Sebastian. It was released in 1996 on Jeepster Records in the United Kingdom and in 1997 by Matador Records in the United States. It is often ranked among the best albums of the 1990s, including being ranked No. 14 in Pitchfork's...
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Blue Spring Ride
2010s
While most young girls make an effort to show off their feminine charms, Futaba Yoshioka deliberately behaves like she wants to repel anyone who might be attracted to her. Ostracized by her female classmates in middle school for being a little too popular with the boys, she desperately strives to avoid a similar sit...
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Being and Nothingness
1940s
Existence precedes essence. The magnum opus of existentialist philosophy.
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Books 1980s
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Love, politics, and philosophy in Prague Spring. Lightness versus weight as existential choice.
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Music 2000s
The Glow Pt. 2
Lo-fi folk meets crushing distortion. Nature, smallness, and the sound of being alive.
Anime 2000s
Beck
Fourteen-year-old Yukio "Koyuki" Tanaka is a dispirited young boy with no goals in life. However, this all changes when Koyuki saves a strange-looking dog named Beck from being harassed by a group of local kids. The dog's owner, 16-year-old Ryuusuke "Ray" Minami, is an emerging guitarist and the former member of a p...
Film 2010s
The Bling Ring
The Bling Ring is a 2013 crime film written and directed by Sofia Coppola featuring an ensemble cast led by Emma Watson, Katie Chang, Israel Broussard, Taissa Farmiga, Claire Julien, Georgia Rock and Leslie Mann. It is based on the 2010 Vanity Fair article "The Suspects Wore Louboutins" by Nancy Jo Sales, which deal...
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Essays 2010s
Between the World and Me
A letter to a son about being Black in America. Baldwin updated for the 21st century.
Books 2010s
A Tale for the Time Being
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, she plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace. Across the Pacific a novelist...