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The Host
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The Mahabharata
Carries a strong pull into essays through Vyasa and identity.
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The Master and Margarita
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and memory.
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and after-hours.
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The Dark Side of the Moon
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 Souls of Black Folk
Carries a strong pull into music through identity and power.
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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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The Brothers Karamazov
1880s
Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.
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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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Parasyte: The Maxim
2010s
All of a sudden, they arrived: parasitic aliens that descended upon Earth and quickly infiltrated humanity by burrowing into the brains of vulnerable targets. These insatiable beings acquire full control of their host and are able to morph into a variety of forms in order to feed on unsuspecting prey. Sixteen-year-o...
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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 1960s
The Master and Margarita
The Devil visits Soviet Moscow. Satire, romance, and Pontius Pilate in one impossible novel.
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Music 1970s
The Dark Side of the Moon
Time, money, madness, and death. The concept album as cultural monolith.
Anime 2000s
Black Lagoon
Salaryman Rokurou Okajima spends his days trying to climb his company's corporate ladder, until one day when a business negotiation in Thailand goes awry. During the botched deal, he falls hostage to the Lagoon Company—a band of ruthless pirate mercenaries. Left to the whims of his captors after his managers refuse...
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Film 1980s
The Shining
A family winters in an isolated hotel. Madness, isolation, and the Overlook's ghosts.