Links of interest from the past week:
The tea party’s new front in the American culture wars: literature
Adam Kirsch, Tablet
In defense of Fanny Price
Tara Isabella Burton, The Paris Review
Rebuild Penn Station!
R. R. Reno, First Things
This is not a VermeerTM
Rex Sorgatz, Medium
Money cubicle’s the beast
Brad Phillips, The Enemy
From our pages:
Gatsby meets Macomber
Jeffrey Meyers
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Christine Emba was the Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism at The New Criterion. She was previously an editor at The Economist Intelligence Unit. Her work has appeared in National Review, First Things, Verily magazine, and other outlets.