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Whole Horse Both Barrels
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Whose Truth, Whose Lies?
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Only for a Short While
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Illness as Metaphor
Carries a strong pull into books through modernity and South Asia.
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Fleabag
Carries a strong pull into books through longing and urban isolation.
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Tokyo Sonata
Carries a strong pull into books through longing and urban isolation.
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Moby-Dick
1850s
Call me Ishmael. A captain's obsessive hunt for a white whale. America's greatest novel.
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Whisper of the Heart
1990s
Tsubaki hails from an all-female clan of ninjas hidden deep in the forest. While a strict code guides the many kunoichi in training, the most important rule the young women must adhere to is: never interact with men, for they are far too dangerous to be trusted. As the leader of Team Dog, Tsubaki has many duties she...
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Tokyo Sonata
2000s
A Tokyo family slips into economic and emotional collapse while still trying to perform ordinary life.
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Illness as Metaphor
1970s
In 1978, while recovering from cancer, Susan Sontag wrote Illness as metaphor, the celebrated essay on the invented and often punitive uses of illness in our culture. It was not surprising that a decade later, after the advent of AIDS, Sontag felt compelled to write a sequel that would counter the almost universal l...
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Mrs Dalloway
One day in London. A society hostess prepares for a party while a shell-shocked veteran unravels.
Anime 1980s
Maison Ikkoku
In the town of Clock Hill, there is an old boarding house called Maison Ikkoku. While the residence itself is fairly normal, most of its occupants are not. Yuusaku Godai, its most quiet tenant, has finally reached his limit with his neighbors' constant disruptions and boisterous partying. Wanting a calmer place to c...
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Film 2000s
The Headless Woman
A woman hits something while driving. Did she kill someone? Class privilege and denial.
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Books 1970s
Intersection
The modernist Hong Kong novella whose structure Wong Kar-wai openly echoed in In the Mood for Love — two lives held on parallel rails in the same city.
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Music 2000s
Whose Truth, Whose Lies?
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Anime 2000s
Death Note
A student finds a notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it. Justice versus megalomania.