First Links — 5.15.14

What Does Religion Look Like in Prison?
Casey N. Cep, Pacific Standard

Will the Movies Ever Catch Up to H.R. Giger?
Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly

Play, Dammit
Heather Havrilesky, The Baffler

In the Image of God: John Comenius and the First Children’s Picture Book
Charles McNamara, Public Domain Review

People Who Eat People: Hannibal and TV’s New Darkness
Lynn Coady, Hazlitt

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