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On the Job
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Written on the Body
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and memory.
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Murder on the Links
Carries a strong pull into anime through power and folklore.
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Blood on the Tracks
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Turn on the Bright Lights
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and after-hours.
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On the Poetic Style of the Marquis of Montrone
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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On the Origin of Species
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Kids on the Slope
Japanese anime television series
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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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Blood on the Tracks
1970s
Tangled Up in Blue and the sound of a heart breaking. Dylan's most personal album.
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Kids on the Slope
2010s
Introverted classical pianist and top student Kaoru Nishimi has just arrived in Kyushu for his first year of high school. Having constantly moved from place to place since his childhood, he abandons all hope of fitting in, preparing himself for another lonely, meaningless year. That is, until he encounters the notor...
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Essays 1850s
On the Origin of Species
Natural selection and the evolution of life. The book that changed humanity's understanding of itself.
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Books 2000s
Kafka on the Shore
A boy runs away from home. A man talks to cats. Two stories converge in Murakami's dreamscape.
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Music 2000s
Turn on the Bright Lights
Post-9/11 New York City post-punk revival. Urgency, bass lines, and nocturnal grandeur.
Anime 2010s
Aggretsuko
Red panda Retsuko continues to work at her cyclic office job, with the occasional stress-venting via death metal karaoke on the side. With the company of her newfound friends Gori and Washimi, life is more enjoyable than ever before. But some new shake-ups to her status quo threaten to add more stress to her life. A...
Film 1970s
Love on the Run
Love on the Run is a 1979 film from France, associated with François Truffaut. 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 1800s
On the Poetic Style of the Marquis of Montrone
On the Poetic Style of the Marquis of Montrone is a 1807 essay or critical text by Pietro Giordani, linked to a wider international field and Italian. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument, and editorial context.