• The intense love and labor of Studio Ghibli, and Hayao Miyazaki’s caution “against the urge toward completism in a medium that offers a canvas without limit.” (New York Review of Books)

• Funding the war on climate change the same way we funded the war on fascism. (Strange Matters)

• Britain’s siege on the Imperial City, India’s role in the Boxer Rebellion, and “the biggest looting expedition since Pizarro.” (The Paperclip)

• Racism in Philadelphia during the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. (New York Public Library)

• Meet the mothers of the Clark County, Nevada Welfare Rights Organization, who “fought their own war on poverty” in the 1970s and whose “most fervent wish is for Generation Z to pick up where they left off.” (The Indypendent)

• “Brothels, bartenders, and film stars: Eve Arnold's women—in pictures.” (The Guardian)

• “An Israeli First-Grader Stumbled on a 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Amulet on a School Trip.” (ArtNet)

• “The idea of a highly organized system of tunnels, codes, safe houses, and networks is mostly a fiction, but a useful one. This organization was its strength, and its limitation.” (Atlas Obscura)

• The rise of “craft fetishism” and the evolving “aura” of leather. (Dirt)

• On the enduring fascination with the shipwreck, and the idea that “every object we are looking at—lockets, prayer books, rings that were pried off the fingers of corpses, model ships—contains its own story. I found myself wondering: Do they really? Yes and no.” (New York Review of Architecture)

• “If the Western visual tradition insists on portraiture’s affirmation of the subject, can there really be a portrait of a slave? Or do portraits of enslaved individuals intrinsically undermine the objectifying project of slavery?” (The Nation)

• This week in obituaries: Ales Pushkin, Mutulu Shakur, Lord Creator, Mary Ann Hoberman, Rev. Stephen Pieters, Peter Nero, Henry Kamm, Bill Shipp, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Fred Hoffman, James Lewis, Benno Schmidt, Jr., C.R. Roberts, Nikki McCray-Penson, Mikala Jones, Gerald C. Meyers, James Dobbins, Roy Herron, Rick Froberg, and Milan Kundera.