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Now showing — children's literature · 5 works

  • Succession Television · 2010s

    A media dynasty's children compete for their father's empire. Power, family, and self-destruction.

    PowerIdentitySurveillance
  • Midnight's Children Books · 1980s

    Children born at the moment of Indian independence possess magical powers. Nation as allegory.

    After-hoursPowerMemory
  • Over the Garden Wall Television · 2010s

    Two brothers lost in a strange forest. American folk horror as children's animated miniseries.

    PowerNatureSurveillance
  • Squid Game Television · 2020s

    Desperate debtors play deadly children's games. Capitalism, survival, and viral spectacle.

    ModernityPowerSurveillance
  • Three chapters of distance — physical, emotional, temporal — between two people who loved each other as children. Shinkai's delicate heartbreak in watercolor light.

    LongingFolkloreIdentity
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  • Children's Children Music
  • Over the Rainbow: Showtunes in Aid of the Association of Children's Hospices Music