• On the artifacts lost in Lāhainā: “Some of the rare books and documents preserved at the center weren't just history. They were instructive materials for Indigenous people fighting for ownership of the land and water that belonged to their ancestors.” (All Things Considered)

• Eugene Debs on the beauty of the bicycle, “a mighty leveler upward and downward.” (Jacobin)

• America’s first gun control law, 1619. (The Atlantic)

• A visit to the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, PA. (Centre Daily Times)

• Sofiya Tolstoy’s “answer novel,” which “took arms against her husband’s grand ambition for the extinction of the human race—and his petty animosity toward love.” (Literary Hub)

• On Victor Hugo’s influence on Vincent van Gogh, and the “veiled macabre symbolism in these cypresses.” (Hyperallergic)

• “It’s likely that the people who inhabited these islands in the Pleistocene era, 12,000 years ago, had ‘an image of an inter-island “community of practice.” ’ ” (Cosmos)

• A tour through the Lower East Side in the 1980s. (Guardian)

• Bringing century-old trolleys “back from the dead.” (Atlas Obscura)

• Revisiting Susan Sontag in Sarajevo. (Times Literary Supplement)

• On Maeve Brennan’s “union of marriage and revolution”: “Both revolution and marriage are, after all, exercises of hope; you might even call them both attempts at homemaking—efforts to construct something new, stable, and supportive. Her stories of people who cannot be happy together are about the uncomfortable friction between grand plans for the future and the relentless dailiness of living—a lesson learned by thwarted revolutionaries and unhappy spouses alike.” (The New Republic)

• This week in obituaries: Ada Deer, Keith Waldrop, Roland Freeman, Brice Marden, Jamie Reid, Kavita Singh, Angela Flowers, Joan Kaplan Davidson, Michael Parkinson, Clarence Avant, Linda Haynes, Magoo, W. Jason Morgan, Carol Randolph, Patrick Hamilton, Dorothy Casterline, John Barrett, Tom Jones, Nechama Tec, Frederick Eberstadt, Philip Sherman, Renata Scotto, Bob Giles, Alex Collins, Rick Howlett, Jason Cantrell, John Scott, Jerry Moss, and Joan Meyer.