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The Lonely City
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The Sopranos
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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The Wire
Carries a strong pull into music through power and South Asia.
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Songs in the Key of Life
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and after-hours.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and urban isolation.
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The Republic
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
Essays
The Souls of Black Folk
Carries a strong pull into music through identity and power.
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The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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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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Kids on the Slope
2010s
Introverted classical pianist and top student Kaoru Nishimi has just arrived in Kyushu for his first year of high school. Having constantly moved from place to place since his childhood, he abandons all hope of fitting in, preparing himself for another lonely, meaningless year. That is, until he encounters the notor...
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The Shining
1980s
A family winters in an isolated hotel. Madness, isolation, and the Overlook's ghosts.
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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 1880s
The Brothers Karamazov
Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.
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Music 1970s
Songs in the Key of Life
Wonder's magnum opus. Sir Duke, Isn't She Lovely, and the most joyous double album ever made.
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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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Essays
The Republic
What is justice? The cave, the philosopher-king, and the foundations of Western thought.