• The 1918 flu epidemic in photos. (The Atlantic)

• This week in unexpected headlines: “How a Jersey Crime Reporter Became a High-End Robber.” (WNYC)

• Meet “perhaps the single greatest pornographer produced in the English language”: “With characters like ‘Buggeranthos,’ ‘C__tigratia,’ ‘C__ticula,’ ‘Clytoris,’ and of course ‘Fuckadillia,’ the late seventeenth-century play Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery, would seem to be little more than pornography. And yet, in certain critical respects, this bawdy play embodied the Restoration.” (JSTOR Daily)

• Jesmyn Ward on The Great Gatsby: “That, perhaps, was the idea most invisible to me as a young reader: that the very social class that embodied the dream Gatsby wanted for himself was predicated on exclusion. That Gatsby was doomed from the start. He’d been born on the outside; he would die on the outside.” (The New York Times Book Review)

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks to new Americans about the history of their new country—and quotes Alexis de Tocqueville: “The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than other nations but rather in her ability to repair her faults.” (Washington Post)

• Frida Kahlo in pop culture: “Some days, seeing women—who are, for the most part, white—take up an interest in the most famous Mexican artist of all time is wildly validating. But then I think of the incredibly stylish girl who wanted a unibrow, and I think of all the Frida Kahlo tote bags and T-shirts I see in stores and on Instagram, and I find a small part of me very quietly wondering, ‘Why now? ’” (Racked)

• Fifty years later, “the Fair Housing Act has never fully delivered on its promise to promote and further integration.” (NewYorker.com)

• Tarsila do Amaral and “Brazil’s marginalized histories.” (Hyperallergic)

• This week in obituaries: a darts superstar, the director who cofounded Studio Ghibli, an abstract painter, the “honorary solicitor for the Ramblers’ Association,” and “the untouchable emperor of the art of noise.”