• “We need the wisdom of the Wages for Housework women: their plain-speaking, unremitting focus on exploitation, money, power, revolution, and capitalism. But we also need defenders of the care ethic and commonsense yet complex versions of housework generated by my students. As important as it is to recognize activity in the home as work, we drain the life from it if we see it only that way. Whose shirt is it? What is the woman ironing thinking?” (New York Review of Books)

• Now available: a previously unpublished short story by Raymond Chandler. (Guardian)

• Tracing changes made to Romeo and Juliet, “from edition to edition through time.” (Library of Congress)

• Douglas Adams’ prescient vision for the future. (Wall Street Journal)

• “Our Enduring Fascination With Ancient Roman Baths.” (Hyperallergic)

• On the Christian revival. (UnHerd)

• On Jean Rhys’ women: “These characters are interested and invested in appearances: masks, reflections, clothes, mannequins, portraits, makeup and mirrors are repeating motifs throughout Rhys’s novels and short stories. And though Rhys went through life feeling as if she were ‘a person at a masked ball without a mask,’ she is—in interviews, biography and her own memoir, tellingly called Smile, Please—somehow unknowable, always glimpsed through a veil.” (The Observer)

• This week in obituaries: Abdul Ghani Bhat, Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh, Zubeen Garg, Sara Jane Moore, Jim Edgar, Nicholas Grimshaw, Tess Johnston, Agnes Gund, Marilyn Hagerty, Bobby Hart, Matteo Franzoso, Claudia Cardinale, Bernie Parent, Sonny Curtis, Henry Jaglom, Nikola Pilić, Richard Moe, D.D. Lewis, Robert Barnett, Jack Daniels, Marian Burros, Bobby Cain, Brett James, Robert Redford, and Blaine Keith Milam, who was executed by lethal injection by the state of Texas.