First Links — 4.21.14

Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain
Leslie Jamison, The Virginia Quarterly Review

In Damascus, Christians Briefly Ignore War for Easter
Reuters

The Ads That Shaped American Beer Marketing
Adam Houghtaling, Punch

The Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom
G. C. McLoughlin, Mere Comments

The Death of the Patriarch: Remembering Gabriel García Márquez
Nicolás Medina Mora, Buzzfeed

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