• A 155-year-old mousetrap catches a mouse. (Atlas Obscura)

• The 1915 lynching of Jewish businessman Leo Frank: “A murder, a botched and terribly obfuscated trial, and a tinder box of xenophobia, anti-Semitism, racism, and ‘white rights’ in post-Reconstruction Atlanta had resulted in yet another murder, the creation of the Anti-Defamation League, and the first strong resurgence of a then-dormant Ku Klux Klan since the group had disbanded in 1869.” (Oxford American)

• Infinite Jest turns twenty. (New York Times)

• In praise of brutalist architecture: “Buildings once deemed monstrosities are now national treasures…Committed ‘concrete heads’ go on pilgrimages to Chicago, Brasilia and Havana where key brutalist buildings are to be found.” (Telegraph)

• Robert Lowell: great poet, terrible husband. (The New Republic)

• The neglected history of a populist art form: “Importantly, decorated papers have long been accessible, whether handmade marbling, block printing, lithography, embossing, or mass-produced decoration of the twentieth century. As Marks writes: ‘Unlike expensive oil paintings, decorated papers were available to all but the poorest in society,’ and thus reflect the popular tastes of each age.” (Hyperallergic)