Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This week's playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/5MmQVrX7Ezpsz7gAXYnceU?si=d369e53905354916


Books discussed:
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
- Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
- The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin


Films discussed:
- Election (dir: Alexander Payne)
- Mirror (dir: Andrei Tarkovsky)
- The Grandmaster (dir: Wong Kar Wai)
- A City of Sadness (dir: Hou Hsiao-Hsien)





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