First Links — 10.16.15

Mind the Gap: Neuroscience, Transhumanism, and Human Nature
William E. Carroll, Public Discourse

Discovering the Earliest Known Draft of the King James Bible
Jeffrey Alan Miller, Times Literary Supplement

Jafar Panahi’s Remarkable Taxi
Richard Brody, New Yorker

Music, Memory, and the Death of St. Stan’s
Rod Dreher, American Conservative

Michel Houellebecq, Casually Provocative
Rachel Donadio, New York Times

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