• A timeline of the Israel-Palestine conflict. (New York Times)

• Touring Manchester’s “regeneration”: “It’s a bit bizarre to see Engels in this square surrounded by these corporate restaurants and businesses. But it almost kind of sums up Manchester: radical spirit and entrepreneurialism.” (Los Angeles Review of Books)

• A history of “Keynesianism.” (Jacobin)

• “The Complicated Love Story of Modernist Design Duo Aino and Alvar Aalto.” (Dwell)

• “In 1974 lawmakers passed the Congressional Budget Control and Impoundment Act to bring order to the annual appropriations process. As we approach its fiftieth anniversary, it’s clear that the law has failed to bring order.” (Wall Street Journal)

• The Victorian séances that became the Rocky Horror Picture Show. (Atlas Obscura)

• “In nineteenth-century colonial Cuba, with sugar plantations mixing European and African cultures, the danzón melded African rhythms with European musical structure.” (Library of Congress Blog)

• Reconsidering the Christopher Columbus story. (TheAtlantic.com)

• “Inside the Welsh punk scene of the 1980s.” (Huck)

• “One of the central precepts of trauma healing holds that we reclaim events of loss through narrative. Hou refuses a narrative, thus refusing reclamation, suspending us in the psychic trauma of his generation.” (Paris Review Daily)

• Now showing at the New York Public Library: Photos of the New York City subway from 1977. (Gothamist)

• “ ‘They’re already dead,’ I recall a campus antiwar activist saying to me on the night Bush announced that the U.S. had begun bombing Iraq. He was right; hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were about to die in Bush’s folly, their fates already decided. At the time I understood and somewhat appreciated what the activist was saying, but I also was parochial enough to wonder whether he even cared about the Americans at Ground Zero who were literally already dead (never mind that Iraq had nothing to do with what happened to them). Today, though, his words echo in my head as I think about the Palestinians in Gaza, and the agony of knowing that they’re already dead no matter what any of us feel or think or say.” (n+1)

This week in obituaries: Terence Davies, Russell Batiste, Jr., Kevin Phillips, Bruce Weaver, Louise Meriwether, Hughes Van Ellis, Charles Feeney, Michael Chiarello, Dorothy Hoffner, Henri Dauman, Ted Schwinden, Jim Poole, Ellsworth Johnson, Michael Bonallack, Florence Fisher, Shawna Trpcic, Claude Cormier, Brendan Mallone, John Tilley, and over 2,500 people killed in the past week in the war between Israel and Hamas.