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The Rivals of Painful Gulch
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Television
The Sopranos
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
Television
The Wire
Carries a strong pull into music through power and South Asia.
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Music
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Carries a strong pull into television through power and after-hours.
Music
The Dark Side of the Moon
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Essays
The Souls of Black Folk
Carries a strong pull into music through identity and power.
Essays
The Bhagavad Gita
Carries a strong pull into books through identity 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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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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Legend of the Galactic Heroes
1980s
Two rival admirals, 110 episodes. Space opera as political philosophy.
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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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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 1920s
The Trial
A man is arrested and prosecuted by an inaccessible authority. Bureaucracy as existential nightmare.
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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 1920s
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Joan's trial in extreme close-up. The human face as the landscape of silent cinema.
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Essays
The Bhagavad Gita
Arjuna's dialogue with Krishna on the battlefield. Duty, action, and the nature of the self.