First Links — 12.18.13

Swing Low
Christopher Benfey, New York Review of Books

Mormons and the New Statement on Race
John Turner, Anxious Bench

Raising the Awesome Child
Diane M. Hoffman, Hedgehog Review

It’s Time to Return to the New Critics
Micah Mattix, Public Discourse

The Desolation of the Imagination
Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Standing on My Head

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