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The First Time
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Speak
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and South Asia.
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The Castle
Carries a strong pull into anime through folklore and identity.
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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
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and longing.
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The First Step
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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Soft City
Carries a strong pull into books through identity 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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Love in the Time of Cholera
1980s
A man waits fifty years for his first love. Desire, aging, and the persistence of feeling.
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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.
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Essays 1890s
The First Step
The First Step is a 1891 essay or critical text by Leo Tolstoy, linked to a wider international field and Russian. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument, and editorial context.
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 1920s
The Castle
This book is the earliest and most influential of the Gothic novels. First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the second edition, "to blend the two kinds of ro...
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...