Inmates perform Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Grafton Correctional Institution
Stephanie Metzger, The Morning Journal
Victorian Occultism and the Art of Synesthesia
Benjamin Breen, The Appendix
Orange Is The New Black Spreads Empathy in All Directions
Todd VanDerWerff, The AV Club
Brief Notes on Science
Gonçalo M. Tavares, Asymptote
The Female Sufi Mystics of the Pankisi Gorge
Tara Isabella Burton, Al Jazeera America
(h/t: Tristyn Bloom)
The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist
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The Possibility of Possibility
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