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Short Stories
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Turtles Have Short Legs
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Short Stories
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Labyrinths
Carries a strong pull into books through Jorge Luis Borges and migration.
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Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
Carries a strong pull into books through folklore and identity.
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Labyrinths
Carries a strong pull into essays through Jorge Luis Borges and migration.
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Interpreter of Maladies
1990s
Short stories of Indian and Indian-American lives. Cultural displacement rendered with delicate precision.
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Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
2010s
After their parents' deaths, brother and sister Akito and Akiko Himenokouji were forced to live with separate families for six years. But now they have finally reunited and begin to live together. It quickly becomes apparent that Akiko harbors romantic feelings for her brother; however, Akito only sees her as a sibl...
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A Short Film About Love
1980s
A Short Film About Love is a 1988 film from Poland, associated with Krzysztof Kieślowski. 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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Labyrinths
collection of short stories and essays by Jorge Luis Borges translated into English
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Books 1930s
The Street of Crocodiles
This a magical book of short stories set in a small town in Poland during the period between the two World Wars. The writer, Bruno Schulz, wrote only two books in his lifetime but the two are so rich in vision that they contain a whole world. There are wonderful stories of childhood and how a child's imagination tra...
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Music 2010s
Short Arms, Short Legs - EP
Film 1980s
A Short Film About Killing
A Short Film About Killing is a 1988 film from Poland, associated with Krzysztof Kieślowski. 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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Books 2000s
Kafka on the Shore
A boy runs away from home. A man talks to cats. Two stories converge in Murakami's dreamscape.
Film 2010s
Certain Women
Certain Women is a 2016 American drama film edited, written, and directed by Kelly Reichardt. Based on "Native Sandstone", "Travis, B." and "Tome"—three short stories from Maile Meloy's collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It—it stars Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Lily Glad...
Books 1960s
Labyrinths
Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays by the writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett. It includes, among other stories, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Garden of Forking Paths", and "The Libr...