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Twenty Years After
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The Killing
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and urban isolation.
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Welcome to the N.H.K.
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Blackstar
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Lux
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A History of Western Philosophy
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The Killing
2000s
A murder investigation across twenty days. The original Nordic noir that launched a genre.
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The Line of Beauty
2000s
It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby--whom Nick had idolized at Oxford--and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions...
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Music · Strong bridge
The River
1980s
Working-class America in twenty tracks. Dreams, disappointment, and the road.
Anime · Strong bridge
Welcome to the N.H.K.
2000s
Twenty-two-year-old college dropout Tatsuhiro Satou has been a hikikomori for almost four years now. In his isolation, he has come to believe in many obscure conspiracy theories, but there is one in particular which he holds unshakable faith in: the theory that the evil conspirator behind his shut-in NEET (Not in Em...
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Film 1990s
Peppermint Candy
A man's life told in reverse. Twenty years of Korean history through one man's disintegration.
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Essays 1940s
A History of Western Philosophy
Twenty-five centuries of philosophy surveyed with clarity and wit. Russell's Nobel Prize-winning overview.
Books 2000s
Pattern Recognition
One of the most influential and imaginative writers of the past twenty years turns his attention to London - with dazzling results.Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the world's coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a myste...
Music 2010s
Blackstar
Blackstar is the twenty-sixth and final studio album by the English musician David Bowie. Released on 8 January 2016, Bowie's 69th birthday, the album was recorded in secret in New York City with his longtime co-producer Tony Visconti and a group of local jazz musicians: Donny McCaslin (saxophone), Jason Lindner (pi...
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Film 2020s
Past Lives
Two childhood friends from Seoul reunite in New York twenty years later. What could have been.
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Books 2010s
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
A hijra, a landlord, and Kashmir. Roy's return to fiction after twenty years.