• Remembering Father Daniel Berrigan, radical antiwar activist: “During the late ’60s and into the ’70s, Berrigan, the wordsmith, managed something remarkable. He leavened his prophetic, Old Testament anger—at America’s foul, murderous past and present; at the Catholic church’s shameless centuries of bloodletting—with warmth and even sweetness.” (Bookforum)

• Iran after Khamenei. (Boston Review)

• The Nigerian architecture that “unsettles the neat binary between ‘indigenous’ and ‘foreign.’” (Africa is a Country)

• “How Notting Hill Exposed Britain’s Postcolonial Crisis.” (MIT Press Reader)

• Revisiting Satyajit Ray’s 1970 film of “class privilege and male ineptitude.” (4Columns)

• “Inside a 12,000-year-old kitchen in Neolithic Anatolia.” (BBC)

• Found: New species of “living fossil” with an “unusually twisted jawbone.” (Natural History Museum)

• “The temple is a house among others—it is as secular as the neighborhood, the houses in the neighborhood as sacred as any self-interrogating idea of sacredness will allow. A sacred monument is a contradiction in terms. The monument, whether it’s a real temple or a fake one, is always in play with its other: an ordinary home. The monumental is constantly absorbed into, and reimagined as, dailiness. It forfeits a defining boundary.” (n+1)

• This week in obituaries: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ronnie Eldridge, Bernard LaFayette, John Hammond, António Lobo Antunes, Mosiuoa Lekota, Bob Power, Slava Tsukerman, Juan Jose Valdez, Lou Holtz, Sandy Wernick, Neil Sedaka, Liliana Angulo Cortés, and Billy Leon Kearse, who was executed by lethal injection by the state of Florida.