Snapshot: Enes Kanter, above, will be fasting for Ramadan, which started Sunday. Oh, and he’s in the middle of the N.B.A. playoffs. Kanter, a Swiss-born Turk, has fasted while playing competitive basketball for the past decade, but never during the postseason.

Scholars: Medieval studies is grappling with a fraught question: Does the field have a white supremacy problem? Some say yes, arguing that scholarship on the Middle Ages helped create the idea of white European superiority. Others say activists are trying to replace scholarship with denunciations of white male privilege.

London Marathon: Jessica Anderson, a nurse in London, sought to break the Guinness World Record for the fastest woman to run the marathon in a nurse’s uniform. She beat the record — but Guinness rejected it because she wore scrubs instead of a dress.

The case for binge-reading: Instead of reading books in five- or 10-minute snatches before bed, push on through chapter break after chapter break and read for hours, Ben Dolnick, a novelist, writes in the Opinion section. He argues it’s more satisfying than the creepy propulsion that draws you into a “White Collar” marathon.

What we’re reading: This in Practical Typography. There’s no end of analysis of the Democratic presidential candidates, but Matthew Butterick, a typographer, coder and lawyer, takes the choice of fonts on their campaign homepages as his starting point. Michael Wines, our national correspondent, calls it a “hugely entertaining review.”