1955 · Juan Rulfo · 124 pages · Literary Fiction
Rulfo's slim, haunting masterpiece blurs the line between life and death in a ghost town ruled by memory, creating one of the most influential novels in the Spanish language.
2004 · David Mitchell · 509 pages · Literary Fiction
Cloud Atlas is an audacious feat of literary architecture, six nested stories spanning centuries that together make a powerful argument about how human cruelty and kindness echo across time.
2016 · 7 Seasons · Showtime · Drama
Billions delivered a sharp, addictive power struggle between two titans of New York finance and law, but couldn't sustain the crackling energy of its early seasons across a seven-season run.
2013 · 6 Seasons · Netflix · Drama
House of Cards at its peak was some of the sharpest political television ever made, a show that understood power as something enjoyed rather than merely wielded. The first two seasons remain essential viewing. The decline is real, the final season is a mess, and the whole edifice was complicated by circumstances outside the story. Watch it for what it was at its best, and stop when it stops being that.