FIRST LINKS — 6.30.14

A century later, why does Chaplin still matter?
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club

Faking Galileo
Massimo Mazzotti, Los Angeles Review of Books

American Idol
James T. Keane, America

Consider the Squirrel
Jamie Allen, Oxford American

E.B.
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig

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