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Graduate students and gig workers in Iowa City orbit each other through workshops, slaughterhouses, and dating apps, searching for connection in a precarious economy.
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Real Life
Wallace, a queer Black biochemistry graduate student from Alabama at a mostly white Midwestern university, spends a late-summer weekend in which his friendships, his work and his past are all tested.
Filthy Animals
Interconnected stories about young people in the American Midwest grappling with desire, loneliness, and the impossible project of being known by another person.
Stoner
A Missouri farm boy becomes a literature professor at the University of Missouri and lives a quiet, thwarted life that only gains shape in its retelling.
Crossroads
In 1971 suburban Chicago, associate pastor Russ Hildebrandt and his family each struggle with faith, desire and a youth group called Crossroads, as their lives pull apart over a single winter.
On Beauty
Two academic families, the liberal mixed-race Belseys and the conservative Trinidadian-British Kippses, collide in a New England college town in Zadie Smith's update of Howards End.
The Great Believers
In 1980s Chicago, art gallery director Yale Tishman watches the AIDS epidemic take his friends, and in 2015 Fiona, the sister of one of them, searches Paris for her estranged daughter.
Little Fires Everywhere
In the planned suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, in 1997, the orderly Richardson family rents a house to Mia Warren, an itinerant artist, and her teenage daughter Pearl, and a custody fight over a Chinese American baby divides the town and the two families.
Maurice
Maurice Hall, a conventional young man from the suburbs, falls in love at Cambridge with his friend Clive Durham, in an England where their love is a crime, and has to work out what kind of life he can have.
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
In 1998 Raquel Toledo, a first-generation art history student at Yale from Brooklyn, comes across the work of Anita de Monte, a Cuban-born artist whose death in 1985 left her famous sculptor husband a widower and her own work forgotten.
Housemates
Leah, a writer, and Bernie, a photographer, meet through a Philadelphia housemate ad, and when Bernie's old professor leaves her a complicated inheritance the two set out across rural Pennsylvania to make a book of words and pictures.
The Marriage Plot
At Brown in the early 1980s, Madeleine, an English major, is caught between Leonard, a brilliant, troubled biologist, and Mitchell, a religious-studies student who believes she is meant for him.
The Mighty Red
In the Red River Valley of North Dakota in 2008, as the financial crisis hits, Kismet Poe, sixteen, is pursued by Gary Geist, the son of a rich sugar beet farmer, and the lives of her mother and a dozen neighbours are pulled along with them.