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The Second Sex
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Flood
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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If You're Feeling Sinister
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and South Asia.
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The Second Sex
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and South Asia.
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Giovanni's Room
Carries a strong pull into music through power and longing.
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The Castle
1920s
This book is the earliest and most influential of the Gothic novels. First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the second edition, "to blend the two kinds of ro...
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The Pearl
1980s
The Pearl is the second collaborative studio album by Harold Budd and Brian Eno, released in August 1984 by Editions EG and produced by Eno and Daniel Lanois in Hamilton, Ontario. The Pearl is similar to Budd and Eno's previous collaboration, Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror (1980), consisting mostly of subtly trea...
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Mind Game
2000s
After seeing her jump onto a subway at the last second and getting her ankle crushed between the doors, Nishi reconnects with his high school sweetheart, Myon. Nishi is still very much in love with Myon, but is shocked to learn that she is engaged to another man. Nishi agrees to meet Myon's fiancé at her family's Ya...
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Nollywood Babylon
2000s
Inside the world's second-largest film industry. Nollywood's creative chaos documented.
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Books 1980s
Bright Lights, Big City
Written entirely in the second person, McInerney's first novel is a vivid account of cocaine addiction.
Music 1990s
If You're Feeling Sinister
If You're Feeling Sinister is the second album by the Scottish indie pop band Belle and Sebastian. It was released in 1996 on Jeepster Records in the United Kingdom and in 1997 by Matador Records in the United States. It is often ranked among the best albums of the 1990s, including being ranked No. 14 in Pitchfork's...
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Essays 1980s
Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree
Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree is a 1982 essay or critical text by Gérard Genette, linked to a wider international field and multiple languages. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument, and editorial cont...
Books 1950s
Giovanni's Room
Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.
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Music 1960s
Axis: Bold as Love
Hendrix's second album. Little Wing and the marriage of blues, psychedelia, and studio craft.
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Second Epistle to Timothy
book of the New Testament attributed to Paul