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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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The Souls of Black Folk
Carries a strong pull into music through identity and power.
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The runway until we die
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The Sopranos
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Television · Strong bridge
The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.

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The Trial
1920s
A man is arrested and prosecuted by an inaccessible authority. Bureaucracy as existential nightmare.

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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Banana Fish
2010s
Aslan Jade Callenreese, known as Ash Lynx, was a runaway picked off the streets of New York City and raised by the infamous godfather of the mafia, Dino Golzine. Now 17 years old and the boss of his own gang, Ash begins investigating the mysterious "Banana Fish"—the same two words his older brother, Griffin, has mut...
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Film 1980s
The Shining
A family winters in an isolated hotel. Madness, isolation, and the Overlook's ghosts.

Television 2000s
The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.

Books 1940s
The Stranger
A man kills an Arab on a beach and feels nothing. Absurdism's founding novel.

Music 1970s
The Dark Side of the Moon
Time, money, madness, and death. The concept album as cultural monolith.
Film 1960s
The Battle of Algiers
The Algerian fight for independence from France. Revolution filmed as it might have happened.

Essays 1900s
The Souls of Black Folk
Double consciousness and the color line. The founding text of African American intellectual tradition.