• On the “transformation of abuse into a thirst trap” for the rebranding of Wuthering Heights. (Public Books)

• On the stone walls across the northeast that mark historical boundaries and “properties and labors that no longer exist.” (Hedgehog Review)

• Rebuilding the Lighthouse of Alexandria. (New York Times)

• A look at Hongkongers preparing for Lunar New Year, from the 1970s to the 2000s. (South China Morning Post)

• “Why the Great Schism of 1054 is a Medieval Myth.” (Medievalists.net)

• On literary depictions of Hell and the “low bar of internal coherence [that] allows competing and contradictory ideas to coexist in a literary tradition without cancelling out each other.” (Aeon)

• How the Hundred Years’ War reshaped Europe. (Wall Street Journal)

• On the “mutual development” of the U.S. penal system and U.S. immigration policies since the nineteenth century. (Boston Review)

• This week in obituaries: James Van Der Beek, Brad Arnold, Andrew Ranken, Bud Cort, Tamas Vasary, Fred Smith, Helmuth Rilling, Greg Brown, Cees Nooteboom, Philippe Gaulier, Ray Handley, Gabor Boritt, LaMonte McLemore, Ray Mouton, and Kenneth Luna, one of about twenty-five New Yorkers to die of hypothermia-related causes during the cold snap.