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Now showing — The Things We Saw (That Only I Saw) · 5 works

  • The Wire Television · 2000s

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

    PowerSurveillanceNature
  • The Sopranos Television · 1990s

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

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • The Godfather Film · 1970s

    The Corleone family saga. Power, loyalty, and the corruption of the American dream.

    PowerAfter-hoursLonging
  • Things Fall Apart Books · 1950s

    An Igbo leader confronts colonialism. The most important African novel in English.

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • The God of Small Things Books · 1990s

    Twins in Kerala, caste, forbidden love, and the small things that destroy. Language as architecture.

    LongingMemoryMigration
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  • The Best Damn Thing Music
  • Living Things Music
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  • The Practice of Everyday Life Essays
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  • The Wire Television
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