First Links — 11.3.14

Promised Land
Walter A. McDougall, Intercollegiate Review

The Myth of Chinese Super Schools
Diane Ravitch, The New York Review of Books

The South Transept Window, St. Lucia at Lowhampton
Martin Monohan, The Poetry Foundation

The Most Popular Passages in Books, According to Kindle Data
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