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Third
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Teen Dream
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The Trial of the Khmer Rouge: Thirty Years of Investigation into the Cambodian Genocide
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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The Location of Culture
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The OA
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Television · Strong bridge
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
1980s
Thirteen episodes of wonder. Sagan's tour of the universe established science documentary as philosophical inquiry.
Books · Strong bridge
The Thirty-nine Steps
1910s
The Thirty-nine Steps is a 1915 book by John Buchan, linked to United Kingdom and British English and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
Film · Strong bridge
Thirteen
2000s
Thirteen is a 2003 psychological coming-of-age teen drama film directed by Catherine Hardwicke, written by Hardwicke and Nikki Reed and starring Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood and Reed with Jeremy Sisto, Brady Corbet, Deborah Kara Unger, Kip Pardue, Sarah Clarke, D. W. Moffett, Vanessa Hudgens, and Jenicka Carey in...
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Essays · Strong bridge
The Location of Culture
1990s
Hybridity, mimicry, and the third space. Bhabha's theory of how colonized cultures resist, absorb, and transform the colonizer.
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The OA
The OA is an American mystery drama television series with science fiction, supernatural, and fantasy elements. The OA debuted on Netflix on December 16, 2016. Created and executive-produced by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, the series is their third collaboration. The series consists of two seasons of eight episo...
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Books 2010s
A Gentleman in Moscow
A count under house arrest in a Moscow hotel for thirty years. Elegance, wit, and endurance.
Music 2000s
Hospice
Hospice is the third studio album by American indie rock band The Antlers, and their first concept album. It was initially self-distributed by the band in March 2009, and was eventually remastered and re-released once they signed to Frenchkiss Records in August of the same year.
Film 1940s
The Third Man
A pulp writer arrives in postwar Vienna to find his friend dead — or so he's told. Carol Reed's noir masterwork, with Orson Welles in the shadows.
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Essays 2000s
The Trial of the Khmer Rouge: Thirty Years of Investigation into the Cambodian Genocide
The Trial of the Khmer Rouge: Thirty Years of Investigation into the Cambodian Genocide is a 2009 essay or critical text by Francis Deron, linked to a wider international field and French. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism...
Books 1880s
Germinal
The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity's capacity for compassion and hope.Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to...