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Universe
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Thank Me Later
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Reise, Reise
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Power of Myth
Carries a strong pull into books through power and folklore.
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Essays
Modest Rationality Is a Theoretic Character Pedagogy Should Have
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and South Asia.
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Normal People
Carries a strong pull into books through power and South Asia.
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White Oleander
1990s
Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons t...
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Music · Strong bridge
Vespertine
2000s
Music boxes, choirs, and laptop intimacy. Domestic space as sonic universe.
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A Place Further Than the Universe
2010s
Four girls journey to Antarctica. Friendship, loss, and the courage to leave.
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A Separation
2010s
A couple's divorce unravels into moral crisis. Iranian cinema at its most precise and universal.
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Essays 1980s
The Power of Myth
*The Power of Myth* launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people. To him, mythology was the "song of the universe, the music of the spheres." With Bill Moyers, one of America's most p...

Television 2020s
Normal People
Two Irish teenagers navigate love and class across university years. Intimacy as television.
Books 2010s
The Marriage Plot
The story concerns three college friends from Brown University—Madeleine, Leonard, and Mitchell—beginning in their senior year, 1982, and follows them during their first year post-graduation.
Music 2000s
Reise, Reise
Reise, Reise is a 2004 album associated with Rammstein and Universal Music Group. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
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Film 2000s
Last Life in the Universe
A suicidal Japanese librarian and a Thai woman find unlikely connection. Slow-burn tranquility.
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Essays
Modest Rationality Is a Theoretic Character Pedagogy Should Have
scholarly article in Journal of Northeast Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), no. 5, 2004
