• The evolution of freckles. (History Channel)

• Mary Ruefle’s erasure notebooks, “excavated composition.” (The Paris Review Daily)

• “A History of Abortion Undergrounds—and a Guide to Starting One.” (The New Republic)

• “The difference between today and 1939 and 1941 is we have these pieces of paper called treaties — on torture, on genocide.” (New York Times)

• A theory on the origin of the word “tariff.” (The Paperclip)

• Thomas Paine’s guide to fighting dictatorship. (Literary Hub)

• “How neo-medievalist tattoos became a ruling aesthetic.” (Dazed)

• New: A history of queer experience captured through the evolution of photography. (Hyperallergic)

• On view: The songs of New York, in pictures. (Guardian)

• Found: One-million-year-old island-dwellers, neighbors of human “hobbits.” (Archaeology)

• This week in obituaries: Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, Moamen Aliwa, Mohammed Al-Khaldi, Saja al-Musallami, Mahmoud Awwad, Hossam al-Shaer, Lamya Na’na’, Maher Abu Latifah, Sana, AbdelRahman, Ziyyaf al-Shawwaf, al-Nadeem family, Miguel Uribe, Mario Paglino and Gianni Grossi, James Lovell, Sheila Jordan, Danielle Spencer, Lloyd Williams, George C. White, Leonard Tow, David Mazarella, Kunishige Kamamoto, Christophe de Menil, Genshitsu Sen, and Dale Webster.