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The Barbarian Invasions
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Waiting for the Barbarians
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and Southern Europe.
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The Odyssey
Carries a strong pull into essays through memory and folklore.
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and after-hours.
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The Dark Side of the Moon
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and after-hours.
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The Souls of Black Folk
Carries a strong pull into music through identity and power.
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Television · Strong bridge
The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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Waiting for the Barbarians
1980s
A magistrate on the frontier confronts the Empire's brutality. Colonialism as moral parable.
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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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Essays · Strong bridge
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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Television 2000s
The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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Books 1880s
The Brothers Karamazov
Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.
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Music 1970s
The Dark Side of the Moon
Time, money, madness, and death. The concept album as cultural monolith.
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Film 1970s
The Godfather
The Corleone family saga. Power, loyalty, and the corruption of the American dream.
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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.
Television 2010s
Barbarians Rising
Barbarians Rising is a 2016 television series from United States, shaped by named creators. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United States. Engages with after-hours, nature. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.