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Now showing — The Fire Next Time · 5 works
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Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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The Corleone family saga. Power, loyalty, and the corruption of the American dream.
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A hero's ten-year journey home from war. The foundation of Western narrative.
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Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.
MemoryMigrationFolklore
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- The Suburbs Music
- Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue Music
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- The Fire Next Time Essays
- The Bhagavad Gita Essays
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- The Wire Television
- The Sopranos Television