• On the letters Virginia Woolf wrote to keep her brother alive in the mind of friends as long as possible. (NewYorker.com)

• A 1970 killing over a jug of raisin wine in the Arctic presaged the legal problem of crimes committed in outer space. (Slate)

• “ ‘We shouldn’t be curating people’s souls’: Denver museum repatriates sacred carvings to Kenyan tribes.” (Denver Post)

• “The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced more than $1.6 million in grants to twenty-seven sites and organizations through its African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.” (National Trust for Historic Preservation)

• “How a utopian vision of Black freedom and self-government was undone in a world still in thrall to slavery and racism.” (Aeon)

• On the New Afrika Independence Movement. (The Baffler)

• A history of anti-Blackness in Mexican pop culture. (The Abusable Past)

• The masks of 1918. (TheAtlantic.com)

• “The remains of an ancient Aztec palace have been discovered under a stately building in Mexico City.” (BBC News)

• The past and future of the Food Timeline. (Eater)

• On the work of Helen Garner. (Literary Hub)

• “Rwanda’s Genocide Ended Twenty-Six Years Ago. Survivors Are Still Finding Mass Graves.” (NPR)

• On the first gay magazine in the U.S. (JSTOR Daily)

• “On November 6, 1906, Theodore Roosevelt signed Special Order No. 266. With a stroke of his pen, the president triggered the dishonorable discharge of 167 Black soldiers of the Twenty-Fifth Infantry stationed in Brownsville, Texas.” (Zócalo Public Square)

• This week in obituaries: Zindzi Mandela, Flossie Wong-Staal, Ola Mae Spinks, Milos Jakes, Michael Glickman, Thereza de Orléans e Bragança, Molly Neptune Parker, Helene Aldwinckle, Marga Richter, Ron Johnston, Ragaa el-Gedawy, Tran Ngoc Chau, Jay Riffe, Susan Shaw, Leonardo Villar, Louis “The Coin” Colavecchio, and Blaine Kern.