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The Room Next Door
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Giovanni's Room
Carries a strong pull into film through power and longing.
Books
The Line of Beauty
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and South Asia.
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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 Dark Side of the Moon
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Republic
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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The Bhagavad Gita
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and Southern Europe.
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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
The Brothers Karamazov
1880s
Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.
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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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Essays · Strong bridge
The Republic
What is justice? The cave, the philosopher-king, and the foundations of Western thought.
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Television 2000s
The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
Books 2000s
The Line of Beauty
It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby--whom Nick had idolized at Oxford--and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions...
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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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The Bhagavad Gita
Arjuna's dialogue with Krishna on the battlefield. Duty, action, and the nature of the self.
Books 1920s
Jacob's Room
Jacob's Room is a 1922 book by Virginia Woolf, linked to United Kingdom and British English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.