First Links — 6.2.14

Reparations, Colonialism, and How to Engage an Argument
Catherine Addington, The American Conservative

Muriel Spark: the author as dictator
Sameer Rahim, The Telegraph

Wilkie Collins’s Page-turners
Marc M. Arkin, The New Criterion

Lean Years of Plenty
Sam Sacks, Open Letters Monthly

The Exorcists Next Door
Julie Lyons, D Magazine

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