First Links — 6.11.14

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)

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