Worldwild

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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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Neuromancer

Gibson invented the word "cyberspace" — the founding text of the genre

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The epistolary novel that defined its generation of outsiders

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The Stranger

Camus's absurdist masterpiece — Meursault's radical indifference as a philosophical statement

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The Overstory

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

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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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Disco Elysium

A detective RPG that turns ideology into stats and philosophy into dialogue

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NieR: Automata

Yoko Taro's meditation on existence, meaning, and androids who choose to feel

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Apocalypse Now

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

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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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Blade Runner 2049

Villeneuve's sequel expands the philosophical questions of the original

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Princess Mononoke

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