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The 40-Year-Old Virgin
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After-hoursLongingIdentityPower
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The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Featured · Film
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
2000s
A man reveals he's never had sex and his coworkers mount an intervention. Apatow's breakout comedy with more heart than its premise suggests.
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The Master and Margarita
Books
The Master and Margarita
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and memory.
The Odyssey
Books
The Odyssey
Carries a strong pull into film through folklore and Western Europe.
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Music
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and power.
The Dark Side of the Moon
Music
The Dark Side of the Moon
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Souls of Black Folk
Essays
The Souls of Black Folk
Carries a strong pull into music through identity and power.
The Bhagavad Gita
Essays
The Bhagavad Gita
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and Southern Europe.
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The Sopranos
Television · Strong bridge
The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
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The Brothers Karamazov
1880s
Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.
MemoryMigrationFolklore
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Music · Strong bridge
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
1990s
Soul, hip-hop, and reggae fused into a deeply personal statement of faith, love, and independence.
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The Souls of Black Folk
1900s
Double consciousness and the color line. The founding text of African American intellectual tradition.
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The Wire
Television 2000s
The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
PowerSurveillanceNatureUrban isolation
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Books 1940s
The Stranger
A man kills an Arab on a beach and feels nothing. Absurdism's founding novel.
MemoryMigrationFolkloreIdentity
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Music 1970s
The Dark Side of the Moon
Time, money, madness, and death. The concept album as cultural monolith.
After-hoursLonging
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Film 1980s
The Shining
A family winters in an isolated hotel. Madness, isolation, and the Overlook's ghosts.
Urban isolationFolkloreAfter-hoursLonging
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Essays
The Bhagavad Gita
Arjuna's dialogue with Krishna on the battlefield. Duty, action, and the nature of the self.
IdentityNatureModernityResistance
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Books 1960s
The Master and Margarita
The Devil visits Soviet Moscow. Satire, romance, and Pontius Pilate in one impossible novel.
LongingMemoryMigrationFolklore
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