• The notes of Charles Portis. (Library of America)

• “Is the Metropolitan Museum of Art Displaying Objects That Belong to Native American Tribes?” (ProPublica)

• “Across Ukraine, libraries devastated by the war are culling their collections of Russian-language books and Russian literature.” (New York Review of Books)

• The history of America’s obsession with cars, and the parking spaces such a commitment requires. (The New Republic)

• “When it comes to the matter of legacy—which versions of which songs are remembered, and who is credited—history was not kind to Little Richard. ” (NewYorker.com)

• “In 1939, the Great Depression still raging, the president of Zenith Radio Corporation, Commander Eugene F. McDonald Jr., commissioned the first baby monitor, designed by the famous American sculptor Isamu Noguchi.” (Wired)

• “Why are Ethiopian jewels still in a London museum?” (The Dial)

• “The boozy story of how we decided alcohol was a health boon in the ’90s—and how it all fell apart.” (Slate)

• This week in obituaries: Harry Belafonte, Jerry Springer, Donald Hinds, Kate Saunders, Emily Meggett, John Underwood, Len Goodman, Gail Christian, Elisabeth Kopp, Dick Groat, Jane Davis Doggett, Roy Saltman, Valda Setterfield, April Stevens, Ken Potts, Megan Terry, Jeremy Gordin, Herb Douglas, Karl Berger, Bruce Haigh, Barry Humphries, Alton H. Maddox Jr., Stew Leonard, and Carolyn Bryant Donham.