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Written on the Body
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and memory.
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The Hearing Trumpet
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and memory.
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Given
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Given
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Carries a strong pull into television through power and South Asia.
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Sister Outsider
Carries a strong pull into film through power and South Asia.
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Television · Strong bridge
Any Given Wednesday with Bill Simmons
2010s
Any Given Wednesday with Bill Simmons is a 2016 television series from United States, shaped by named creators. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure.
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Written on the Body
1990s
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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Given
2020s
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Frances Ha
2010s
Frances Ha is a 2012 American comedy drama film directed by Noah Baumbach. It is written by Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, who also stars as Frances, a struggling 27-year-old dancer. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 1, 2012, and was given a limited theatrical release in the United States on...
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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...
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Television
Any Given Sunday
television series
Books 1950s
The Hearing Trumpet
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm. Exact Change launched a program of reprinting her fiction with what is perhaps her best loved book. The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of...
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Film 2010s
Capernaum
A boy sues his parents for giving him life. Childhood poverty in Beirut with devastating clarity.
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Essays 2020s
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life is a 2021 essay or critical text by named creators, linked to a wider international field and multiple languages. It keeps the t...
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Music 2010s
Any Given Sunday