Five Books Newsletter 34


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This week's interview

http://fivebooks.com/interviews/jonathan-cook-on-palestinians-israel http://fivebooks.com/interviews/jonathan-cook-on-palestinians-israel

Jonathan Cook on Palestinians in Israel

Palestinians living in Israel are cut off from both sides of the conflict and constantly trying to square the circle, argues Nazareth-based writer Jonathan Cook.

Books of the Week

http://fivebooks.com/recommended/cry-beloved-country-by-alan-paton“This book deals with issues of culture and race and rural/urban and generational divides in a way that is still true today.”

Cecile Richards on How Progressives Can Make a Difference (http://fivebooks.com/interviews/cecile-richards-on-how-progressives-can-make-difference)

http://fivebooks.com/recommended/bach-well-tempered-clavier-cd-by-g-schirmer“It is so simple and it is so very sensitive, it goes right into me, it probes right through my outer shell. I can’t imagine anybody could resist this kind of music.”

Johanna Reiss on Suicide (http://fivebooks.com/interviews/johanna-reiss-on-suicide)

http://fivebooks.com/recommended/man-without-face-by-masha-gessen“She thinks Putin is afflicted by a rare form of kleptomania called pleonexia, where you get quasi-sexual satisfaction from expropriation.”

Edward Lucas on Putin and Russian History (http://fivebooks.com/interviews/edward-lucas-on-putin-and-russian-history)

http://fivebooks.com/recommended/worst-date-ever-war-crimes-hollywood-heart-throbs-and-other-abominations-by-jane-bussman“She goes from interviewing Britney Spears to interviewing child soldiers and refugees...it’s incredibly funny.”

Michela Wrong on Africa (http://fivebooks.com/interviews/michela-wrong-on-africa)

http://fivebooks.com/recommended/evil-by-roy-baumeister“Baumeister reviews the various psychological roots of evil.”

Steven Pinker on the Decline of Violence (http://fivebooks.com/interviews/steven-pinker-on-decline-violence)

http://fivebooks.com/recommended/how-talk-so-kids-will-listen-and-listen-so-kids-will-talk-by-adele-faber-and-elaine-mazl“This is perhaps the best book every written. I read it years ago and it really did change my life, even before I ever had kids.”

Andrew Gelman on Statistics (http://fivebooks.com/interviews/andrew-gelman-on-statistics)

Quote of the Week

"In chess hard work is often underestimated while the idea of effortless genius is greatly overestimated.”
Dominic Lawson on Chess (http://fivebooks.com/interviews/dominic-lawson-on-chess)

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