The Opening Act

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Atlanta

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

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Whiplash

A film about the cruelty and transcendence of jazz mastery

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Princess Mononoke

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

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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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No Longer Human

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