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The Handmaiden
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The Handmaid's Tale
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and folklore.
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The Master and Margarita
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and folklore.
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Carries a strong pull into television through power and after-hours.
Music
The Dark Side of the Moon
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Souls of Black Folk
Carries a strong pull into music through identity and power.
Essays
The Bhagavad Gita
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and South Asia.
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Television · Strong bridge
The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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Books · Strong bridge
The Handmaid's Tale
1980s
A woman enslaved as a reproductive vessel in a theocratic America. Dystopia as feminist nightmare.
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Music · Strong bridge
The Dark Side of the Moon
1970s
Time, money, madness, and death. The concept album as cultural monolith.
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Essays · Strong bridge
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 2000s
The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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Books 1940s
The Stranger
A man kills an Arab on a beach and feels nothing. Absurdism's founding novel.
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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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Essays
The Bhagavad Gita
Arjuna's dialogue with Krishna on the battlefield. Duty, action, and the nature of the self.
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Books 1880s
The Brothers Karamazov
Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.