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All Quiet on the Western Front

The anti-war novel — inside the trenches of WWI with no glory, only mud

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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

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Spec Ops: The Line

A third-person shooter that becomes an indictment of the genre and its players

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Atlanta

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

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Apocalypse Now

Coppola's hallucinatory vision of Vietnam as a journey into the heart of darkness

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Princess Mononoke

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