Roundtable

The Rest Is History

Exorcisms, sanctions, and enjoying both food and drink in great quantities.

By Jaime Fuller

Friday, March 11, 2022

The Miracle of the Gadarene Swine, England, c. 1000. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Digital image courtesy the Getty’s Open Content Program.

• Found: Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance. (New York Times)

• “Smithsonian to give back its collection of Benin bronzes.” (Washington Post)

• “The All-Black League That Invented Hockey as We Know It.” (Defector)

• On the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. (Jewish Currents)

• “Dorothy Sayers was said to enjoy both food and drink in great quantities. And her characters do as well.” (Paris Review Daily)

• A history of sanctions. (Dissent)

• On exorcisms. (London Review of Books)

• The story behind the “first exhibition at the Met to examine Western sculpture in relation to the histories of transatlantic slavery, colonialism, and empires.” (Harper’s Bazaar)

• On nineteenth-century seaweed collectors. (Public Domain Review)

• This week in obituaries: Charles E. Entenmann, Maggy Hurchalla, Mitchell Ryan, Renee Poussaint, Fred Ferretti, Gary North, Ron Miles, Tony Walton, Nelson W. Aldrich Jr., Dan Graham, Kent Waldrep, Walter R. Mears, Alice von Hildebrand, Conrad Janis, Dennis Cunningham, and Edmund Keeley.