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The Bends
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Carries a strong pull into television through power 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 Souls of Black Folk
Carries a strong pull into music through identity and power.
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The Argonauts
Carries a strong pull into music through longing and identity.
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The Sopranos
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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Television · Strong bridge
The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
Books · Strong bridge
The Brothers Karamazov
1880s
Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.
Film · Strong bridge
The 400 Blows
1950s
A troubled Parisian boy's struggle against family and school. The iconic final freeze frame.
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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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Television 2000s
The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
Books
The Odyssey
A hero's ten-year journey home from war. The foundation of Western narrative.
Music 1990s
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Soul, hip-hop, and reggae fused into a deeply personal statement of faith, love, and independence.
Film 1970s
The Godfather
The Corleone family saga. Power, loyalty, and the corruption of the American dream.
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Essays 2010s
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author’s relationship with artist Harry Dodge. This story, which...
Books
The Mahabharata
Two families fight a war for a kingdom. The longest poem ever written. Duty, dharma, and destruction.