• New translations from Natalia Ginzburg: “Ginzburg recognised victimhood as the central condition of societies rife with violence and injustice of every kind. Yet she conferred on it only a provisional virtue.” (Equator)

• The ancient history of the world’s most popular drug. (Literary Hub)

• “It is difficult to overstate the significance of Heim’s discovery of Bilitis’s poetry: here, at last, was the material evidence and textual perspective of a female contemporary to Sappho and her lovers. The catch? ‘Bilitis’ was fake.” (Aeon)

• “A new study suggests the mysterious Voynich Manuscript may be a medieval cipher.” (Archaeology)

• A father-daughter correspondence describing Stalinist Russia. (Colossal)

• “To help the city—and not just help but inspire it—La Guardia depended on his relationship with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the entire Roosevelt administration. Mamdani knows this only too well, having referred to La Guardia after he met with Donald Trump: ‘You can’t tell the story of La Guardia without telling the story of F.D.R.’ Likely, we’ll be telling the story of Mamdani by telling the story of Donald Trump.” (NYR Online)

• Revived: 26-foot Harry Bertoia sculpture from 1970 found in storage. (Smithsonian)

• Found: Fossils of a human ancestor, possibly of the Homo sapiens lineage. (Scientific American)

• This week in obituaries: Renee Nicole Good, Asad Haider, Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Eva Schloss, Elle Simone Scott, Michael Reagan, Marcia Rodd, Ahn Sung-Ki, Aldrich Ames, Steve Sheetz, Brett Hanna-Shuford, Richard Dimitri, Ron Protas, Diane Crump, Danielle Scott-Haughton, Andy Friendly, Radha Subramanyam, Michael Schumacher, and Béla Tarr.