• “What if everything we know about Sacagawea is wrong?” (New York Times)

• A supernatural history of the Atlantic Ocean. (The Conversation)

• The controversial fossil that can “fundamentally change the way we reconstruct the tree of life.” (Guardian)

• Crowds at the Highgate Cemetery, from the nineteenth century to the present day. (Longreads)

• The death and afterlife of Margaret Fuller. (Library of America)

• “Just as I felt I was starting to recover my native tongue, it was time to leave, and to lose it again. To return to being a beginner.” (Psyche)

• On one pre-war writer’s attempt to “conquer the infinitude of all things” as a means of “inaugurating a new era in human history.” (Full-Stop)

• Meet Mamie Fish, the Gilded Age’s “wildest party hostess.” (Bowery Boys)

• A history of gowns spun with glass. (SmithsonianMag.com)

• Found: A 500-million-year-old spike-toothed worm. (Discover)

• “The word savage, Bloch reminds us, comes from the Latin for forest, and in that connotation we can hear the binary between nature and civilization. The fear of shade isn’t so much a fear of random violence per se as of anarchy, a latent anxiety from the elite that all those shady people might, under the porticoes, get the bright idea to organize and revolt. The hatred of shade is, in other words, the hatred of public space and its democratic potential.” (The Baffler)

• Further reading: Sea stories from Lewis H. Lapham, as told to Aidan Flax-Clark; a grand tour through the essays of Lewis H. Lapham; and The World in Time, Ep. 8: Conversations about Moby-Dick. Also, Extracts, a new series on our Substack, this week from THE SEA (Summer 2013).

• This week in obituaries: Alex the Great, Hulk Hogan, Ozzy Osbourne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Chuck Mangione, Eileen Fulton, Joanna Macy, Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Sarah Morlok Cotton, Alan Bergman, Thomas A. Durkin, William H. Neukom, William L. Clay, Edwin Feulner, Jean-Pierre Azéma, “Papa Jake” Larson, Roger Norrington, Roy Black, Joey Jones, Rex White, Bob Hammel, Raymond Saunders, and at least twenty-one children who have died of starvation in Gaza.