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In This Corner of the World
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Snow Crash
Carries a strong pull into music through power and South Asia.
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The Street of Crocodiles
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and memory.
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Born This Way
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and longing.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and after-hours.
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No Future
Carries a strong pull into anime through modernity and identity.
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This Is Us
2010s
This Is Us is an American drama television series created by Dan Fogelman that aired on NBC from September 20, 2016, to May 24, 2022. The series follows the lives and families of two parents and their three children in several different timeframes. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, S...
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In Search of Lost Time
1910s
Memory, time, and the social world of Belle Époque France across seven volumes.
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In Utero
1990s
Nirvana's abrasive follow-up to Nevermind. Heart-Shaped Box and the sound of not coping.
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This Is England
2000s
This Is England is a 2006 film from United Kingdom, associated with Shane Meadows. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Essays 2000s
The Year of Magical Thinking
"this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you . . ."In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called "an indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . a haunting portrait of a four-decade-long m...
Television 2020s
I Know This Much Is True
I Know This Much Is True is an American drama television miniseries directed and co-written by Derek Cianfrance, based on the 1998 novel by Wally Lamb. The series stars Mark Ruffalo in a dual role as twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey. It premiered on HBO on May 10, 2020, and concluded on June 14, 2020, consi...
Books 1920s
This Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise is a 1920 book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, linked to United States and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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Music 2000s
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
PJ Harvey falls in love with New York. Rock at its most romantic and fierce.
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...
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Essays 2000s
No Future
"In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of "reproductive futurism." Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protec...