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From our bookshelves, iPods and laptops to your Thursday morning breakfast table, here are our recommendations for the best of recent culture. Click on, check out and press play on these favorites - because there is a world outside "the bubble."
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
(Bloomsbury, 2005)
A Booker Prize winner, Hollinghurst's "The Line of Beauty" has the air of a classic while remaining enveloped with contemporary wit. Harrowingly honest, the novel follows Nick Guest in 1980s London as he wrestles with issues of class, intellectual pursuit and one of the most sexually tumultuous times of the century.
- Melissa Marshall
Nosferatu
F.W. Murnau
(Silent, 1922)
With Halloween approaching, why not brush up on some expressionist cinema? Murnau's now iconic adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula is in no way dramatically deficient for its "silence." In every way it is creepier because of it. The most memorable feature of the film is the supernatural Count Orlok (i.e. Dracula), whose get-up is hauntingly rat-like.
- Andrew Throdahl
In Ghost Colours
Cut Copy
Modular Interscope
(2008)
Irritating British spelling of "colors" aside, this Aussie band is a favorite in the office, especially Managing Editor Jack Lysohir '08.5. Recommended if you like MGMT, Daft Punk or Cansei de Ser Sexy.
- Grace Duggan
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