• “It isn’t the absence of historical reckoning with the Holocaust but a twist on it that has led today’s Germany into a philosemitic McCarthyism that threatens to throttle the country’s rich cultural life. In the past three years, German historical reckoning has gone haywire, as the determination to root out antisemitism has shifted from vigilance to hysteria.” (New York Review of Books)

• Meeting communities across the United Kingdom for whom “history is not remote or distant, but alive and present in their lives and in the national debate.” (The Guardian)

• Revisiting the work of C.L.R. James. (Verso Blog)

• The economic consequences of the Treaty of Versailles. (In Our Time)

• “A History of Ireland in a Hundred Goodbyes.” (The Irish Times)

• On translating Homer, and turning sound into text. (Public Books)

• The radical possibilities of psychogeography. (JSTOR Daily)

• “Is there an emerging aesthetic in American fiction that combines the literary aspirations of Anna Karenina with the Gothic aesthetics of Dracula?...Both are approaches to writing about Evil.” (Guernica)

• Pop quiz: “Do You Know the History of the Nobel Prize in Literature?” (New York Times)

• This week in obituaries: Ryan Carson, Georgia Dullea, Harriet Pattison, Pat Arrowsmith, Ed Young, Beverly Willis, Evelyn Fox Keller, Echo Brown, Lori Teresa Yearwood, Tom Conway, Francis Lee, Lucy Morgan, Alice Shalvi, Chris Snow, Tim Wakefield, Robert Day, Joe Christopher, Giannis Ioannidis, James Jorden, Russell Sherman, Dick Butkus, and Manish Kunwar, the ninth person acknowledged by the New York City Department of Correction to have died this year while held at or immediately following release from Rikers Island.