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Now showing — The Road to Oz · 5 works

  • Beef Television · 2020s

    A road rage incident spirals two strangers' lives into chaos. Anger, shame, and connection.

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • The Wire Television · 2000s

    Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.

    PowerSurveillanceNature
  • Hejira Music · 1970s

    Hejira is the eighth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in 1976 on Asylum Records. Its material was written during a period of frequent travel in late 1975 and early 1976, and reflects Mitchell's experiences on the road during that time. It is characterized by lyrically dense, sprawli...

    After-hoursLonging
  • The Sopranos Television · 1990s

    A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • The Road to Oz Books · 1900s

    The Road to Oz is a 1909 book by L. Frank Baum, linked to United States and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.

    PowerMemoryMigration
Also in the field · 3
Page to screen
Screen echoes for this book

Open the book outward through film, television, and animated works carrying adjacent tensions.

  • The Wire Television
  • The Sopranos Television
Listening lane
Albums in this field
  • Hejira Music
  • Abbey Road Music
Interpretive layer
Idea lines behind this surface

Bring interpretation forward so the route reads with more clarity, pressure, and argument.

  • The Republic Essays
  • The Bhagavad Gita Essays