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To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee | 1989 | Children, Fiction & Poetry
8.6 (96 Ratings)
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"People don’t understand the nature of racism here in our country. They don’t get how insidious it is…When you start reading [Mockingbird], you start to get an idea of just how awful it is that people just discriminate on the basis of race."

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Narrow Road to the Interior
Narrow Road to the Interior
Matsuo Basho | 2020 | Biography, Fiction & Poetry, Romance
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"The master of the haiku wrote this travelogue of his journey through northern Japan in the 17th century. Everywhere he went he composed a poem and connected his work to his cultural heritage, his spiritual life and, most of all, nature. A riveting meditation."

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Asif Kapadia recommended St. Agnes' Stand in Books (curated)

 
St. Agnes' Stand
St. Agnes' Stand
Thomas Eidson | 2009 | Romance
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"I love Westerns and always wanted to make this into a movie. I still do! It's the one that got away. A tight, taut, tense standoff, and almost impossible to put down once you start reading, dealing with differing beliefs in nature, faith, spirituality."

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Andrew Weil recommended Rashomon (1950) in Movies (curated)

 
Rashomon (1950)
Rashomon (1950)
1950 | Classics, Crime, Drama
9.0 (7 Ratings)
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"A meditation on the nature of reality by Akira Kurosawa, one of greatest of all Japanese films, with magnificent performances by Toshiro Mifune. Is there such a thing as “objective reality”? Or, as Kurosawa suggests, is it all in the eye of the beholder?"

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