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The Fame
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The Fame
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and South Asia.
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The Fame Monster
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and South Asia.
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The Republic
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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The Souls of Black Folk
Carries a strong pull into music through identity and power.
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The Sopranos
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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The Wire
Carries a strong pull into music through power and South Asia.
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Television · Strong bridge
The Wire
2000s
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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The Stranger
1940s
A man kills an Arab on a beach and feels nothing. Absurdism's founding novel.
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The Godfather
1970s
The Corleone family saga. Power, loyalty, and the corruption of the American dream.
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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 1990s
The Sopranos
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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Books 1920s
The Trial
A man is arrested and prosecuted by an inaccessible authority. Bureaucracy as existential nightmare.
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Music 1990s
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Soul, hip-hop, and reggae fused into a deeply personal statement of faith, love, and independence.
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Film 1980s
The Shining
A family winters in an isolated hotel. Madness, isolation, and the Overlook's ghosts.
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The Republic
What is justice? The cave, the philosopher-king, and the foundations of Western thought.
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Books 1880s
The Brothers Karamazov
Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.