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)

Next
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE

Notes on Anosmia

John Wilson

One morning several years ago, as my wife, Wendy, and I were having breakfast together, I had…

Empire of Unreality

Algis Valiunas

Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) was the author of three novels and two books of mordant dispatches from places…

The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist

Peter J. Leithart

It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…