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Now showing — The Modernity · 5 works

  • The Housekeeper and the Professor Books · 2000s

    The Housekeeper and the Professor is a novel by Yōko Ogawa set in modern-day Japan. It was published in Japan in August 2003, by Shinchosha. In 2009, the English translation by Stephen Snyder was published.

    ModernityMemoryMigration
  • The Time Machine Books · 1890s

    The Time Machine is a 1895 book by H. G. Wells, linked to United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.

    ModernityMemoryMigration
  • The Dispossessed Books · 1970s

    A physicist moves between an anarchist moon and a capitalist planet. Utopia interrogated.

    ModernityPowerMemory
  • The Makioka Sisters Books · 1940s

    Four sisters in prewar Osaka navigate tradition and modernity. Social ritual as narrative architecture.

    RitualModernityMemory
  • The Communist Manifesto Essays · 1840s

    Workers of the world, unite. The pamphlet that reshaped global politics in 23 pages.

    ModernityResistanceIdentity
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