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The Sacred and Profane
15 curated works.
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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 Sacred and Profane
Carries a strong pull into books through longing and South Asia.
Essays
The Souls of Black Folk
Carries a strong pull into books through power and ritual.
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The Wire
Carries a strong pull into books through power and urban isolation.
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The Sopranos
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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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 Master and Margarita
1960s
The Devil visits Soviet Moscow. Satire, romance, and Pontius Pilate in one impossible novel.
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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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The Shining
1980s
A family winters in an isolated hotel. Madness, isolation, and the Overlook's ghosts.
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Television 2000s
The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as 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 1900s
The Souls of Black Folk
Double consciousness and the color line. The founding text of African American intellectual tradition.
Books 2010s
The Sellout
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's *The Sellout* showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relatio...