• Remembering Katherine Mansfield through her favorite food and her favorite literary form: “The burgeoning of fast food enabled by industrialization signaled a freer, more modern mode of consumption…Short fiction provided the reader the same liberty.” (The Public Domain Review)

• Tracing Germany’s journey from “a post-fascist country…to a post-pacifist country.” (Boston Review)

• Meet Yasuke, “Japan’s first Black samurai.” (Smithsonian.com)

• On “evolving postcolonial ‘autoethnography’ ” in Hong Kong, where “anticolonial discourse is muddled between two imperial masters.” (The Baffler)

• “The paisley print has stood the test of time because practically every culture has found something that they have seamlessly connected the symbol with.” (The Juggernaut)

• Considering Sandro Botticelli, “the great painter of hair.” (JSTOR Daily)

• On Kafka’s notebooks: “In these disparate writings the line between life and literature cannot be sharply drawn.” (Literary Hub)

• Found: a message in a bottle from 1887 Edinburgh. (BBC News)

• Returned: an ivory spoon, America’s “first repatriation of a cultural object to the Palestinian people.” (Hyperallergic)

• Now available: a database of unreturned Native remains currently held by museums and academic institutions. (ProPublica)

• The debate over history’s role in “the cause of justice”: “How do we leverage the fierce urgency of now?” (New York Times)

• This week in obituaries: Charles Simic, Blake Hounshell, Adolfo Kaminsky, Bernard Kalb, Jeff Beck, Rehman Rahi, Lynette “Diamond” Hardaway, Adam Rich, Jean Paré, Naomi Replansky, John Grazier, James Lowenstein, Theodore Newman Jr., George Pell, Albert Reichmann, Russell Banks, Tatjana Patitz, Ruggero Deodato, Tom Karen, Kingsize Taylor, Liz Robbins, Thomas Hughes, Paul Johnson, and Constantine II.