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The Mission
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Asterix and the Missing Scroll
Carries a strong pull into anime through migration and folklore.

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and South Asia.
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Carries a strong pull into television through power 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 Republic
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.

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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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Books · Strong bridge
The Brothers Karamazov
1880s
Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.
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Music · Strong bridge
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
1990s
Soul, hip-hop, and reggae fused into a deeply personal statement of faith, love, and independence.
Anime · Strong bridge
Baccano!
2000s
During the early 1930s in Chicago, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, is starting its legendary journey that will leave a trail of blood all over the country. At the same time in New York, the ambitious scientist Szilard and his unwilling aide Ennis are looking for missing bottles of the immortality elixi...
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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 1990s
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
A man searches for his missing cat, then his missing wife. Murakami's deepest well of strangeness.
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Music 1970s
The Dark Side of the Moon
Time, money, madness, and death. The concept album as cultural monolith.
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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 Republic
What is justice? The cave, the philosopher-king, and the foundations of Western thought.