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The Number of the Beast
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The Magic Place
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and Southern Europe.
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The Number of the Beast
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.
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The Bhagavad Gita
Carries a strong pull into film through nature and South Asia.
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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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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
Dream of the Red Chamber
1790s
The decline of a great Chinese family. One of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.
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The Godfather
1970s
The Corleone family saga. Power, loyalty, and the corruption of the American dream.
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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 1960s
The Master and Margarita
The Devil visits Soviet Moscow. Satire, romance, and Pontius Pilate in one impossible 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 1950s
The Seventh Seal
A knight plays chess with Death during the plague. Bergman's most iconic existential parable.
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The Bhagavad Gita
Arjuna's dialogue with Krishna on the battlefield. Duty, action, and the nature of the self.
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Books 1910s
The Metamorphosis
A man wakes up as an insect. Alienation, family, and the absurd in 60 devastating pages.