• Considering the history of the vagrant: “The homeless of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were not lonely wanderers at all. They frequently lived together in ‘jungles’ or camps. They organized through the Industrial Workers of the World and other groups. And, in the US, they even published a newspaper: the ‘Hobo’ News.” (Times Literary Supplement)

• The impacts of historic autoworker strikes over the past century. (Washington Post)

• On Exxon’s decades-long fight to downplay climate change. (The Journal)

• The centuries-old territorial dispute over the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan. (Reuters)

• Meet Marozia, the woman who inherited the papal throne. (Medievalists.net)

• “What Comes After the British Museum?” (The Atlantic)

• Revisiting Stanley Kubrick’s Fear and Desire. (Metrograph)

• Kibbeh through the generations: “Recipes are a living, traveling thing, retaining and losing ingredients along the way.” (L’Orient Daily)

• The musical legacy of the Mississippi State Penitentiary. (The Guardian)

• This week in obituaries: James F. Hoge, Jr., Robert Klane, Fernando Botero, Irish Grinstead, Michael Leva, Eno Ichikawa, Erik Aschengreen, Michael McGrath, Roger Whittaker, Raymond Moriyama, Stephen Gould, Kent Stax, Jules Melancon, Michael Freedman, Byun Hee-bong, Horace Ové, Victor Fuchs, Lauch Faircloth, Bobby Schiffman, François Dionot, Tadaaki Kuwayama, Lisa Lyon, Erwin Olaf, Barry Steenkamp, Charles Gayle, and nearly two thousand environmental activists killed over the past decade.