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The String Quintets
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Aromanticism
Carries a strong pull into television through longing and power.
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Nowhere
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter: The Kingdom of Cuisine
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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Silent Spring
Carries a strong pull into television through power and South Asia.
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Heartstopper
Carries a strong pull into music through power and longing.
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Blue Spring Ride
Carries a strong pull into music through power and South Asia.
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Heartstopper
2020s
Heartstopper is a British coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama television series created by British author Alice Oseman for Netflix, based on her graphic novels and webcomic series of the same name. The series follows the lives Charlie Spring, a gay teen boy who falls in love with classmate Nick (Nicholas) Nelson, wh...
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Death in Spring
1980s
Death in Spring is an unfinished novel by Catalan author Mercè Rodoreda. It was first published in Catalan as La mort i la primavera in 1986. It was released in English in 2009 by Open Letter Books, translated by Martha Tennent. It was rereleased by Penguin European Writers in 2018. Rodoreda wrote the work in the ea...
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Nowhere
1990s
Thames Valley shoegaze: walls of guitar feedback structured into pop songs. The sound of staring at the ceiling and hearing the ocean.
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Blue Spring Ride
2010s
While most young girls make an effort to show off their feminine charms, Futaba Yoshioka deliberately behaves like she wants to repel anyone who might be attracted to her. Ostracized by her female classmates in middle school for being a little too popular with the boys, she desperately strives to avoid a similar sit...
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Film 1940s
Late Spring
A father and daughter, and the quiet devastation of inevitable change.
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Essays 1960s
Silent Spring
The book that launched the environmental movement. Pesticides, ecology, and corporate accountability.
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Books 1980s
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Love, politics, and philosophy in Prague Spring. Lightness versus weight as existential choice.
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Music 2010s
Aromanticism
Art pop about the absence of romantic love. Falsetto, string arrangements, and radical solitude.
Anime 2010s
Given
Tightly clutching his Gibson guitar, Mafuyu Satou steps out of his dark apartment to begin another day of his high school life. While taking a nap in a quiet spot on the gymnasium staircase, he has a chance encounter with fellow student Ritsuka Uenoyama, who berates him for letting his guitar's strings rust and brea...
Film 1960s
The Virgin Spring
The Virgin Spring is a 1960 film from Sweden, associated with Ingmar Bergman. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.