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The Fifth Element
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The Mahabharata
Carries a strong pull into essays through Vyasa and identity.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and memory.
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Amnesiac
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Nightclubbing
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Bhagavad Gita
Carries a strong pull into books through Vyasa and identity.
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The Republic
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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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 Brothers Karamazov
1880s
Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.
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The Dark Side of the Moon
1970s
Time, money, madness, and death. The concept album as cultural monolith.
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Wandering Son
2010s
Effeminate fifth grader Shuuichi Nitori is considered by most to be one of the prettiest girls in school, but much to her dismay, she is actually biologically male. Fortunately, Shuuichi has a childhood friend who has similar feelings of discomfort related to gender identity: the lanky tomboy Yoshino Takatsuki, who,...
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The Bhagavad Gita
Arjuna's dialogue with Krishna on the battlefield. Duty, action, and the nature of the self.
Television 1990s
The Sopranos
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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Books 1980s
Love in the Time of Cholera
A man waits fifty years for his first love. Desire, aging, and the persistence of feeling.
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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 1970s
The Godfather
The Corleone family saga. Power, loyalty, and the corruption of the American dream.
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The Republic
What is justice? The cave, the philosopher-king, and the foundations of Western thought.