• A look at the past century in the national parks. (Stranger's Guide)

          Further reading: BOOK OF NATURE (Summer 2008)

• “The roots of American masculinity are acquisitive. In very different ways, the ships that touched shore at Plymouth and Jamestown—and the colonies, farms, towns, and states that emerged from those landings—were about acquisition and expansion.” (American Affairs)

          Further reading: MONEY (Spring 2008)

• Garth Greenwell on the friendship between James Schuyler and Frank O’Hara. (To a Green Thought)

          Further reading: FRIENDSHIP (Spring 2021)

• An Epicurean guide to overcoming a fear of death. (Psyche)

          Further reading: FEAR (Summer 2017)

• “Emerging in the aftermath of World War II and referring in its earliest uses to the varied potentials of chemical compounds and nuclear technology in warfare, the term ‘dual-use’ presently refers to technologies, materials, and goods with both civilian and military potential. On this basis, the United States has withheld the export of medical machinery to Cuba lest a respirator be repurposed as tool of torture. ... In the context of Israeli policy, dual-use has taken on a far more expansive meaning. Sites such as hospitals can be dual-use weapons if they might be imagined as munitions sites. Educational materials are dual-use if learning emancipates a population under siege. Musical instruments too are of dual-use if they enable the reenactment of a cultural life seen as fundamentally incompatible with Israeli security.” (The Stopgap)

          Further reading: REVOLUTIONS (Spring 2014)

• The “contours of a long tradition in art history of meticulously choreographed courtship” in Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement photos. (BBC)

          Further reading: EROS (Winter 2009)

• Found: “Finely carved ancient head” with “eerie smile.” (Fox News)

• Possibly found: An 18th-century portrait stolen by Nazis. (ABC)

• This week in obituaries: Donald McPherson, Jerry Adler, Starling Lawrence, Angela Mortimer, Maurice Tempelsman, Sheila R. Canby, Joe Hickerson, Tim Armstead, Gérard Chaliand, Ron Turcotte, and Rainer Weiss; Curtis Windom, who was executed by lethal injection by the state of Florida; and Mariam Abu Daqqa, Mohammad Salama, Moaz Abu Taha, Ahmed Abu Aziz, and Hussam al-Masri, the five journalists who were among twenty-two people killed in Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza.