• “This ostensibly unrecoverable era has, some say, never left us alone. And even if we wish to leverage no critique, we can, thanks to Seinfeld and Friends on streaming, burn at will through all the seasons of all its years. We can’t retrieve the 1990s, much less revive them, because they just won’t leave. Which is why I always seem to end up on Astor Place. It’s where New York City stores the 1990s.” (New York Review of Architecture)

• “The Echoes of Ireland’s Bloody Sunday in Renee Good’s Murder.” (Jacobin)

• The afterlife of “America’s own Chernobyl.” (Atlas Obscura)

• Remembering David Bowie’s day visiting with artists living at the Maria Gugging psychiatric clinic. (Guardian)

• “A Cat Left Paw Prints on the Pages of This Medieval Manuscript When the Ink Was Drying 500 Years Ago.” (Smithsonian)

• Ageing wine underwater. (Food & Wine)

• “Since 1979, the U.S. has pursued policies aimed at ensuring the failure of the Iranian Revolution. In the decades that followed, and with particular acceleration under the Trump administration, this effort crystallized into a sanctions regime designed not to promote democracy or human rights but to drive ordinary Iranians into a state of immiseration. This strategy, deployed against governments that Washington unilaterally deems problematic, occasionally for defensible reasons but far more often for refusing to subordinate themselves to U.S. imperial and corporate power, has been linked to an estimated 38 million deaths worldwide since 1971.” (CounterPunch)

• This week in obituaries: Claudette Colvin, Bob Weir, Thomas Causey, John Cunningham, John Forté, Richard Codey, Lai Yuqing, Erich von Däniken, Jim McBride, David Mitchell, Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, Frank Dunlop, Jim Hartung, Rebecca Kilgore, Elle Simone Scott, and Scott Adams.