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The Fame Monster
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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 Souls of Black Folk
Carries a strong pull into music through identity and power.
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The Bhagavad Gita
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and Southern Europe.
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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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The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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Books · Strong bridge
The Brothers Karamazov
1880s
Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.
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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 Shining
1980s
A family winters in an isolated hotel. Madness, isolation, and the Overlook's ghosts.
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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 2000s
The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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Books 1790s
Dream of the Red Chamber
The decline of a great Chinese family. One of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.
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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
The Bhagavad Gita
Arjuna's dialogue with Krishna on the battlefield. Duty, action, and the nature of the self.