The Theatre by Thomas Rowlandson, 1813. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959.
• “What might be useful in the memory of the Revolution?” (Boston Review)
• On the “pompous know-it-all” archetype in Renaissance theatre. (Public Domain Review)
• “The most memorable frenemies and catfights from American history.” (Bowery Boys)
• Overlooked World Cup history, captured in “sportraits.” (Hyperallergic)
• “The protagonist may be male, but The Odyssey is a story in which women predominate.” (BBC)
• On the de-extinction debate. (MIT Press Reader)
• This week in obituaries: Victoria Cruz, William D. Zabel, Mike Wallace, Bill Archer, Bonnie Tyler, Adrian Lyttelton, Wally Funk, Shapoor Zadran, Louise Lasser, Tony Rayns, Indio Solari, George Hutchinson, Moritz de Hadeln, Bertrand Grébaut, Kjell Nilsson, and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was wrongly misidentified and then killed by ICE agents while on his way to work.