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The American West
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Books
Nightwood
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and power.
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The Alchemist
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and South Asia.
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Nebraska
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
Music
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Souls of Black Folk
Carries a strong pull into film through identity and power.
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Democracy in America
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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Television · Strong bridge
The Americans
2010s
Soviet spies pose as an American suburban couple. Marriage and espionage as dual identity.
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The Alchemist
1980s
A shepherd boy travels from Spain to Egypt following his dream. The world's most read fable.
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The Chronic
1990s
G-funk's foundation. West Coast hip-hop redefined by production genius.
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The American Friend
1970s
The American Friend is a 1977 film from Germany and France, associated with Wim Wenders. 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 1900s
The Souls of Black Folk
Double consciousness and the color line. The founding text of African American intellectual tradition.
Books 1930s
Nightwood
"At Nightwood's center are the love affairs of Robin Vote - a character based on Barnes's lover, Thelma Wood. Robin marries Felix Volkbein, an eccentric aristocrat, whom she meets in Paris, and whom she abandons years later for the American Nora Flood. But Nora cannot contain Robin, either, and Robin in turn deserts...
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Music 2000s
The College Dropout
Chipmunk soul and skit-heavy ambition. The album that launched Kanye.
Film 2010s
American Honey
American Honey is a 2016 road drama film written and directed by Andrea Arnold, and starring Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, and Riley Keough. The film follows Star (Lane), a young girl from a troubled home, who runs away with a traveling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling magazine subscriptions door...
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Essays 1830s
Democracy in America
A French aristocrat anatomizes the young American republic. Still the sharpest external reading of American democratic culture.
Television 2010s
The Night Of
A college student is accused of murder in New York. The criminal justice system from the inside.