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The Son's Room
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The Sellout
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and memory.
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Sons and Lovers
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and memory.
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Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Bluegrass Tribute To Mumford & Sons
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Between the World and Me
Carries a strong pull into books through power and South Asia.
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The Mantis
2010s
A serial killer helps her detective son catch a copycat. French crime thriller.
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The Road
2000s
A father and son walk through a burned America. Love as the last thing standing.
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Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
1980s
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is a 1988 album associated with Iron Maiden and EMI. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
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Wandering Son
2010s
Effeminate fifth grader Shuuichi Nitori is considered by most to be one of the prettiest girls in school, but much to her dismay, she is actually biologically male. Fortunately, Shuuichi has a childhood friend who has similar feelings of discomfort related to gender identity: the lanky tomboy Yoshino Takatsuki, who,...
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Essays 2010s
Between the World and Me
A letter to a son about being Black in America. Baldwin updated for the 21st century.
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Books 1940s
Native Son
A young Black man in 1930s Chicago. Systemic racism and the violence it produces.
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Film 1990s
The Celebration
A birthday dinner where a son accuses his father. Dogme 95's most devastating entry.
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...
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Music 2010s
Piano Tribute to Mumford & Sons
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Film 2010s
Son of Saul
A Sonderkommando in Auschwitz tries to bury a boy. The Holocaust at the closest possible range.