First Links — 2.18.14

Willa Cather’s New York
Carol Iannone, Anamnesis

Now, What Do You Make of That?
Dominic Mary Verner, O.P., Dominicana

On Naming Winter Storms
Claire Maiers, Hedgehog Review

Why Writers Create Fictional Nuns
Moira Redmond, Guardian

Does Beauty Make Us Better?
John Armstrong, Aeon

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