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The Road

McCarthy's Pulitzer novel strips survival to its most elemental — love between father and son

thematically connected

No Longer Human

Dazai's autobiographical novel about alienation remains the darkest mirror of the culture

thematically connected

The Last of Us

The defining post-apocalyptic story in games

thematically connected

Princess Mononoke

Studio Ghibli at its most epic — nature, industry, and the cost of progress

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Station Eleven

What survives of us is art — a hopeful post-pandemic fable