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Now showing — Personal Interpretation · 5 works
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Money: A Suicide Note is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. It follows John Self, an advertising director whose hedonism and compulsive spending propel a chaotic transatlantic film project and a personal unravelling. Contemporary and later critics have frequently read the book as a sharp satire of 1980s consumer culture a...
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It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's unnamed young protagonist from others is nearly complete when she initiates her yearlong siesta, during which time she experiences limited personal interactions. Her parents have died; her relationships with her bulimic best friend...
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Sex Education is a British teen sex comedy drama television series created by Laurie Nunn for Netflix. It follows the lives of the teenagers and adults in the fictional town of Moordale as they contend with various personal dilemmas, often related to sexual intimacy. It stars an ensemble cast that includes Asa Butte...
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Thirteen episodes of wonder. Sagan's tour of the universe established science documentary as philosophical inquiry.
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An actress who has gone silent and her nurse on an island. Identity dissolution at its purest.
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