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The Thick of It
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The Master and Margarita
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and memory.
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The Trial
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and power.
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Ambient 1: Music for Airports
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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The Souls of Black Folk
Carries a strong pull into music through identity and power.
Essays
The Bhagavad Gita
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and Southern Europe.
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Books · Strong bridge
The Brothers Karamazov
1880s
Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.
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Music · Strong bridge
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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Film · Strong bridge
The Shining
1980s
A family winters in an isolated hotel. Madness, isolation, and the Overlook's ghosts.
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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 1990s
The Sopranos
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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Books 1920s
The Trial
A man is arrested and prosecuted by an inaccessible authority. Bureaucracy as existential 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
The Bhagavad Gita
Arjuna's dialogue with Krishna on the battlefield. Duty, action, and the nature of the self.
Television 2000s
The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.