FIRST LINKS — 7.03.14

Praying for Radiation
Ashley Makar, Whether Magazine

Reading Lessons of a Religious Upbringing Without Modern Books
Sarah Perry, Guardian

Part Sendup, Part Anxious Self-Portrait: “Friendship” And The New Brooklyn Novel
Lydia Kiesling, Salon

Can the G.O.P. Be a Party of Ideas?
Sam Tanenhaus, New York Times

The Sacred Power of the World
Stephen D. Blackmer, The New Atlantis

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