First Links—1.15.15

Eating Alone in China
Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker

Paul Cézanne Revered the Old Masters, yet Influenced Waves of Modernists
Nancy Locke, Humanities

Among the Disrupted
Leon Wieseltier, The New York Times

Metastasis
David Baker, The Poetry Foundation

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