FIRST LINKS — 6.23.14

Looks Like Kafka, Plays Like A Dream
Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Republic

Their Blood Cries Out
Mark Noll, Books & Culture

Iraqi Christians Flee Homes Amid Militant Push
Diaa Hadid, ABC News

Fortune’s Child
Lewis H. Lapham, Lapham’s Quarterly

The Leopard
James Meek, London Review of Books

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