Hefty Load

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The Road

McCarthy's Pulitzer novel strips survival to its most elemental — love between father and son

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Dune

Herbert's foundational epic — ecology, religion, and empire across the stars

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The epistolary novel that defined its generation of outsiders

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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 Last of Us

The defining post-apocalyptic story in games

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Outer Wilds

The most meditative space exploration game — about curiosity and loss

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Atlanta

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

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Station Eleven

What survives of us is art — a hopeful post-pandemic fable

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Arrival

Denis Villeneuve's quiet masterpiece about language, time, and choice

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Boyhood

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