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The Soft Parade
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The Soft Parade
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.

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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Carries a strong pull into television through power and after-hours.
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Soft City
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and Southern Europe.

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The Souls of Black Folk
Carries a strong pull into music through identity and power.
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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 music through power 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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The Stranger
1940s
A man kills an Arab on a beach and feels nothing. Absurdism's founding novel.
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The Godfather
1970s
The Corleone family saga. Power, loyalty, and the corruption of the American dream.
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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 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 1990s
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Soul, hip-hop, and reggae fused into a deeply personal statement of faith, love, and independence.
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Film 1980s
The Shining
A family winters in an isolated hotel. Madness, isolation, and the Overlook's ghosts.
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Essays 1970s
Soft City
Soft City is the first book written by Jonathan Raban, and published by Hamish Hamilton (UK) and E. P. Dutton & Company (US) in 1974.
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Books 1960s
The Master and Margarita
The Devil visits Soviet Moscow. Satire, romance, and Pontius Pilate in one impossible novel.