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The Pianist
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The Master and Margarita
Carries a strong pull into music through longing and migration.
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The Trial
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and power.
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Journey in Satchidananda
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 film through longing 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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Television · Strong bridge
The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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The Trial
1920s
A man is arrested and prosecuted by an inaccessible authority. Bureaucracy as existential nightmare.
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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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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 1940s
The Stranger
A man kills an Arab on a beach and feels nothing. Absurdism's founding novel.
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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.