First Links — 5.21.14

Tel Aviv Catholic Church Serves Growing Migrant Community
Indrani Basu and John Albert, Religion News Service

Whit Stillman and Chloë Sevigny on Loving Paris
William van Meter, New York Magazine

What are the humanities good for?
Adam Kotsko, An und für sich

The New Humanities
The Editors, The Point

Love and Death in the Cape Fear Serpentarium
Wendy Brenner, Oxford American

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