• Kathryn Schulz finds a book that Langston Hughes inscribed to William Kelley at a junk shop, and then dives into the forgotten writer’s canon. (The New Yorker)

• The real (maybe?) Rosie the Riveter died. (New York Times)

• Drunk History is coming back, and one of their first guests will be Tiffany Haddish, talking about art historian Rose Valland. (Vulture)

• Sex ed in the medieval age: “Physicians saw too much sex as a real medical concern. Conventional wisdom held that several noblemen died of sexual excess. John of Gaunt, the fourteenth-century first duke of Lancaster, allegedly ‘died of putrefaction of his genitals and body, caused by the frequenting of women, for he was a great fornicator.’ ” (Aeon)

• A reporter in Alabama may have found the last ship known to bring slaves to America. (AL.com)

• A field trip through old Virginia Woolf book covers. (Literary Hub)

• From the archives: Ursula K. Le Guin talks about writing. “Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.” (The Paris Review)