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The Pit
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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 books through power and South Asia.
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If You're Feeling Sinister
Carries a strong pull into television through power and after-hours.

Music
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Carries a strong pull into television through power and after-hours.
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Del tipo nell’arte della pittura
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.

Essays
The Souls of Black Folk
Carries a strong pull into books through power and South Asia.
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Television · Strong bridge
The Wire
2000s
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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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.
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Film · Strong bridge
The Shining
1980s
A family winters in an isolated hotel. Madness, isolation, and the Overlook's ghosts.
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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 1990s
The Sopranos
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige 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
The Dark Side of the Moon
Time, money, madness, and death. The concept album as cultural monolith.
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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 1810s
Del tipo nell’arte della pittura
Del tipo nell’arte della pittura is a 1816 essay or critical text by Giuseppe Bossi, linked to a wider international field and Italian. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument, and editorial context.
Television 1990s
My So-Called Life
My So-Called Life is an American teen drama television series created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. It aired on ABC from August 25, 1994, to January 26, 1995. Set at the fictional Liberty High School in a fictional suburb near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, called Three Rivers, i...