First Links — 9.29.14

Not At All Commonplace: Goodbye to D.G. Meyers
Rohan Maitzen, Open Letters Monthly

I Love to Hate Leo Tolstoy
B. D. McClay, The American Spectator

When Everything Works Like Your Cell Phone
Alexis C. Madrigal and Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic

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