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The Tale of Genji
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Television
The Sopranos
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
Television
The Wire
Carries a strong pull into music through power and South Asia.
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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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Essays
Telling the Truth: the Gospel as tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and South Asia.
Essays
The Souls of Black Folk
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and South Asia.
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The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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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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Princess Tutu
2000s
In a fairy tale come to life, the clumsy, sweet, and gentle Ahiru seems like an unlikely protagonist. In reality, Ahiru is just as magical as the talking cats and crocodiles that inhabit her town—for Ahiru really is a duck! Transformed by the mysterious Drosselmeyer into a human girl, Ahiru soon learns the reason fo...
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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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Essays 1900s
The Souls of Black Folk
Double consciousness and the color line. The founding text of African American intellectual tradition.
Television 2000s
The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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Books 1980s
The Handmaid's Tale
A woman enslaved as a reproductive vessel in a theocratic America. Dystopia as feminist nightmare.
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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 1970s
Telling the Truth: the Gospel as tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale
Telling the Truth: the Gospel as tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale is a 1977 essay or critical text by named creators, linked to a wider international field and English. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument, and...