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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
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The Years
Carries a strong pull into essays through memory and folklore.
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The Portrait of a Lady
Carries a strong pull into essays through memory and folklore.
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Portrait in Jazz
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Under Lion Rock
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and after-hours.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and folklore.
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The Portrait of a Lady
1880s
The Portrait of a Lady is a 1881 book by Henry James, linked to England and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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Portrait in Jazz
1960s
The piano trio reimagined. Autumn Leaves and the beginning of conversational jazz.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
2000s
"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...
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Once Were Warriors
1990s
Violence, poverty, and Māori displacement in South Auckland. A brutal domestic portrait that became a national reckoning.
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Under Lion Rock
The unofficial Hong Kong anthem — Sam Hui's civic song read as the city's working-class self-portrait.
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Film 1950s
Ikiru
A dying bureaucrat searches for meaning. One of cinema's most profound portraits of mortality.
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The Years
A stirring, straightforward work written near the end of her luminous career, Virginia Woolf's *The Years* is a portrait of the Pargiters, a staid London family presided over by Colonel Abel Pargiter. In some ways, "portrait" is not an entirely appropriate word, because Woolf's subject in this novel (and an abiding...
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Music 2020s
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
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Film 1970s
The Conformist
A man joins the fascist secret police to feel normal. Political compromise as psychological portrait.
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Music 2020s
Portrait of a Lady