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Post Democracy
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London Calling
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Closer
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Notes of a Crocodile
Carries a strong pull into music through longing and Southern Europe.
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Notes of a Crocodile
1990s
"Set in the post-martial-law era of 1990s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-age of a group of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, Qiu Mi...
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London Calling
1970s
Punk meets reggae, rockabilly, and jazz. The most genre-demolishing album in rock history.
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Girls' Last Tour
2010s
Two girls traverse a post-apocalyptic world on a Kettenkrad. Existentialism meets slice of life.
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The Cloud-Capped Star
1960s
A refugee family in post-Partition Calcutta. Sacrifice, displacement, and the weight of survival.
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Books 2010s
The Buried Giant
An elderly couple in post-Arthurian Britain search for their son in a land of forgetting.
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Music 1990s
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Army of Me, Hyperballad, and It's Oh So Quiet. Björk's most eclectic and accessible album.
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Onward, Christian soldiers!: race, religion, and nationalism in post-civil rights America
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Music 1980s
Disintegration
Gothic pop's masterwork. Rain, reverb, and the gorgeous sound of falling apart.
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Music 1980s
Closer
Ian Curtis's final recordings. Post-punk reaching toward something devastating and transcendent.
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Music 2020s
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