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Atlanta

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

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True Detective

McConaughey and Harrelson in the Louisiana dark — philosophical noir at its peak

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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 Big Sleep

Chandler's Marlowe stories invented the hard-boiled detective — every noir owes a debt

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Silent Hill 2

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

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Disco Elysium

The greatest detective RPG — your brain is the crime scene

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Hereditary

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