First Links — 7.16.14

Alice in Borderland
Charles Foran, The Walrus

The News is Born
Julianne Werlin, Los Angeles Review of Books

Remembering My Friend Chris Mitchell
Wesley Hill, Books & Culture

Divine Reverie: Revelation, Dream Interpretation, and Teeth in Antiquity
Sarah Bond and Matthew Neujahr, The Appendix

Fantasy and the Buffered Self
Alan Jacobs, The New Atlantis

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