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Now showing — A Tale for the Time Being · 5 works

  • A Love Supreme Music · 1960s

    A four-part spiritual suite. Jazz as prayer, devotion, and transcendence.

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  • To Kill a Mockingbird Books · 1960s

    A lawyer defends a Black man in Depression-era Alabama. Justice through a child's eyes.

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  • The Handmaid's Tale Books · 1980s

    A woman enslaved as a reproductive vessel in a theocratic America. Dystopia as feminist nightmare.

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  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence Film · 2000s

    A robot child is programmed to love his human mother — who abandons him. Spielberg completes Kubrick's fairy tale about what it means to be real.

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  • A Fine Balance Books · 1990s

    Four characters navigate India's Emergency period. Compassion and cruelty in precise balance.

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  • A Brief History of Time Essays
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