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Between the World and Me
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Melodrama
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Exile in Guyville
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Sister Outsider
Carries a strong pull into books through power and modernity.
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Between the World and Me
Carries a strong pull into film through power and East Asia.
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101 Reykjavík
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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3:10 to Yuma
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The Bridge
2010s
A body found on the Øresund Bridge between Sweden and Denmark. Nordic noir par excellence.
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The Color Purple
1980s
Letters between two sisters in the rural South. Survival, sisterhood, and spiritual liberation.
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Exile in Guyville
1990s
Exile in Guyville is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Liz Phair, released on June 22, 1993, by Matador Records. It was recorded at Idful Music Corporation in Chicago between 1992 and 1993 and produced by Phair and Brad Wood. The album received acclaim and in 2020 it was ranked No. 56 by Rolling S...
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Mind Game
2000s
After seeing her jump onto a subway at the last second and getting her ankle crushed between the doors, Nishi reconnects with his high school sweetheart, Myon. Nishi is still very much in love with Myon, but is shocked to learn that she is engaged to another man. Nishi agrees to meet Myon's fiancé at her family's Ya...
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Film 2000s
3:10 to Yuma
A struggling rancher escorts a captured outlaw to the prison train. Mangold's taut Western remake built on the tension between two men.
Television 1970s
Scenes from a Marriage
Scenes from a Marriage is a 1973 Swedish television miniseries written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Over the course of six hour-long episodes, it explores the disintegration of the marriage between Marianne, a divorce lawyer, and Johan, a reader in psychology. The series spans a period of 10 years. Bergman's tele...
Books 1990s
Written on the Body
The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.
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Music 2020s
Dawn FM
Purgatory as drive-time radio. Synth-pop, R&B, and existential dread between stations.
Film 2000s
101 Reykjavík
A slacker in Reykjavík drifts between his mother's couch and the city's bars until a Spanish woman rearranges everything. Kormákur's breakout Icelandic comedy.
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Essays 1980s
Sister Outsider
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment among minority wome...