First Links — 5.23.14

Confidentially Yours: The Banality of the Celebrity Profile and How It Got That Way
Anne Helen Petersen, The Believer

Beauty is Truth: There’s a False Equation
Philip Ball, Aeon

Why Harvard Was Right Not to Ban the Black Mass
Robert T. Miller, Public Discourse

The Don’s Don
Katy Waldman, Slate

The Pacification of Rio, as Observed from a Gondola
Amy Moran-Thomas, Boston Review

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