Roundtable

The Rest Is History

Tree fashion, a copy of the U.S. Constitution, and George Sand in Paris.

By Jaime Fuller

Friday, November 26, 2021

Dress, American, eighteenth century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1954.

• “The community of crypto investors who tried and failed to buy a copy of the U.S. Constitution last week has descended into chaos as people are realizing today that roughly half of the donors will have the majority of their investment wiped out by cryptocurrency fees.” (Vice)

• The history of how the meaning of terrorism shifts depending on who deploys it. (The New York Review Books)

• “New research suggests Neolithic people at the ancient city of Çatalhöyük used a surprising source of fibers to make clothing: trees.” (Gizmodo)

• “Met Museum Officially Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria.” (Hyperallergic)

• On the Rosetta Stone. (The New Yorker)

• “Women on the Serial-Killer Movies That Thrill Them.” (Current)

• “Roosevelt Statue to Head to Presidential Library in North Dakota.” (New York Times)

• “How was an unchaperoned young woman novelist to take fuller account of ‘reality’? How was she to ‘allow experience to accumulate’? The obvious answer was to assume the freedoms of a young man and to circulate, alone, unchaperoned, in Paris.” (Aeon)

• Meet William Wells Brown. (Public Domain Review)

• “The queer history of pumping iron.” (The Baffler)

• This week in obituaries: Dave Hickey, Malikah Shabazz, Robert Bly, Ian Fishback, Slide Hampton, Peter Buck, Chun Doo-hwan, Tom Stoddart, Ardeshir Zahedi, Caroline Todd, Fabiola Letelier, Bill Virdon, Patrick Reyntiens, Jay Last, Henry Woolf, Bettina Plevan, Bob Bondurant, Zena Stein, Mick Rock, Nathan Johnson, and Barry Coope.