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Amnesiac
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Works
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Against Interpretation
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and South Asia.
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Critique of Pure Reason
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Columbus
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Dancer from the Dance
Carries a strong pull into music through longing and power.
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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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The Garden of Words
2010s
The Garden of Words is a 2013 anime title tied to Makoto Shinkai and Japan. It keeps the animated field legible through atmosphere, genre range, and exact-title recall.
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The Worst Person in the World
2020s
A young woman navigates love and career in Oslo. The millennial condition as romantic comedy.
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Critique of Pure Reason
1780s
The limits of human knowledge examined. The work that redirected all Western philosophy.
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Books 1990s
Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues is a historical fiction novel written by Leslie Feinberg about life as a butch lesbian in 1970s America. While fictional, the work also takes inspiration from Feinberg's own life, and she describes it as her "call to action."
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Music 1960s
Live at the Apollo
The hardest working man in show business, live. The most influential live album in history.
Film 2010s
Columbus
Columbus is a 2017 American drama film written and directed by Kogonada. The film stars John Cho as the son of a renowned architecture scholar who gets stranded in Columbus, Indiana, and strikes up a friendship with a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library. Michelle Forbes, Rory Culkin, and Par...
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Essays 1960s
Against Interpretation
"'Against Interpretation' was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, among them "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp", and the t...
Books 1970s
Dancer from the Dance
One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard Baths and after-hour...
Music 2000s
Amnesiac
Amnesiac is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 30 May 2001 by EMI. It was recorded with the producer Nigel Godrich in the same sessions as Radiohead's previous album, Kid A (2000). Radiohead split the work in two as they felt it was too dense for a double album. As with Kid A, Amn...