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The First Step
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Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Journey in Satchidananda
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Soft City
Carries a strong pull into books through resistance and South Asia.
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The First Step
Carries a strong pull into books through resistance and migration.
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30 Days
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Rectify
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and South Asia.
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Rectify
2010s
Rectify is an American television Southern Gothic drama series exploring the life of a man after he is released from prison after nearly 20 years on death row following a wrongful conviction. It was created by Ray McKinnon and is the first original series from Sundance TV. It stars Aden Young, Abigail Spencer, J. Sm...
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Don Quixote
1600s
A man who reads too many romances rides out as a knight. The first modern novel.
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Ambient 1: Music for Airports
1970s
Ambient 1: Music for Airports is a studio album by the English musician Brian Eno. It was released in February 1979 through E.G. Records and Polydor Records. It was the first Eno album released under the label of ambient music, a genre intended to "induce calm and a space to think" while remaining "as ignorable as i...
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Pokémon: The First Movie
1990s
Pokémon: The First Movie is a 1998 anime title tied to Kunihiko Yuyama, Shinji Miyazaki, and Hirokazu Tanaka and Japan. It keeps the animated field legible through atmosphere, genre range, and exact-title recall.
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Film 2000s
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
An Inuit epic of jealousy, endurance, and Arctic survival told entirely in Inuktitut. The first feature-length film in the language.
Television 2020s
Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, or simply Interview with the Vampire, is an American gothic horror television series developed by Rolin Jones for AMC, based on The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, named after the first book. Starring Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac and Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncour...
Books 1990s
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a young adult coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky, which was first published on February 1, 1999, by Pocket Books. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted observing teenager, through his freshman year of high school in a Pitts...
Music 1970s
Journey in Satchidananda
Journey in Satchidananda is the fourth studio album by American jazz pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane, released in February 1971 on Impulse! Records. The first four tracks were recorded at Coltrane's home studio in Dix Hills, New York, in November 1970, while "Isis and Osiris" was recorded live at the Village Gate...
Anime 2000s
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
On the precipice of a cataclysmic drought, the Star Readers of the Shin Yogo Empire must devise a plan to avoid widespread famine. It is written in ancient myths that the first emperor, along with eight warriors, slew a water demon to avoid a great drought and save the land that was to become Shin Yogo. If a water d...
Film 1990s
The Watermelon Woman
The Watermelon Woman is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, and edited by Cheryl Dunye. The first feature film directed by a Black lesbian, it stars Dunye as Cheryl, a young Black lesbian working a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about Fae Richards, a Black actress from...