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The Mountain
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The Mountain
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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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 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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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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The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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The Magic Mountain
1920s
A young man visits a sanatorium in the Alps and stays seven years. European civilization on its deathbed.
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Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
1990s
After narrowly escaping Wei Zhuang's assassins, Jing Tianming, Ge Nie, and their allies seek refuge in Mechanical City, the Mohist School's impregnable stronghold hidden deep in the mountains. Protected by hundreds of traps and mechanical beasts, the fortress remains one of the few places untouched by the Qin Empire...
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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.
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The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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Books 1990s
Soul Mountain
A journey through rural China as the self dissolves into landscape, memory, and storytelling. Nobel Prize in Literature, 2000.
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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 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.