Thursday digest

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New today from the Century:

• Beth Felker Jones on New Girl: "Our culture tells young adults to resist adulthood with all their might. New Girl portrays characters who want something more." (subscription required)

• Steven Porter on dishwashing and the will to power

• Edward Blum on Devon Carbado and Donald Weise's collection of runaway slave narratives, which are "as moving as any story by Suzanne Collins or J.R.R. Tolkien."

• Joanna Harder on Creflo Dollar, Cindy Crawford and salvation

• "For shadowment: Villanelle for the solstice," a poem by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell