Chei Verbale

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House of Leaves

The most formally inventive horror novel — the house that defies space, the text that defies reading

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Invisible Man

Ellison's novel about Black American invisibility is the literary foundation hip-hop keeps returning to

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The Overstory

Powers' Pulitzer novel about trees and the humans who fight to protect them

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The epistolary novel that defined its generation of outsiders

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Silent Hill 2

The greatest horror game — a journey into guilt and self-punishment

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Hereditary

Ari Aster's debut — grief as a haunting, family as a trap

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Whiplash

A film about the cruelty and transcendence of jazz mastery

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Princess Mononoke

Miyazaki's most complex environmental fable — nature and industry locked in tragic war

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Boyhood

Linklater filmed a boy growing up over twelve years — the most patient portrait of adolescence in cinema

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Drive

The film that launched a thousand synthwave revival projects

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Atlanta

Donald Glover's show navigates the Atlanta rap scene with surreal precision