FiveBooks Newsletter 100
Links to all our original FiveBooks interviews of the week before, plus
a pick of the best content on The Browser.
[1]FiveBooks weekly newsletter: Links to all our original FiveBooks
interviews of the week before, plus a pick of the best content on The
Browser.
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
FiveBooks at The Browser
This week on FiveBooks: Oxford professor [5]Tariq Ramadan discusses
Islam in the West; Australian economist [6]John Quiggin contemplates
utopia; author [7]Louise Foxcroft prescribes books on the history of
medicine; novelist [8]Nick Harkaway explains how to survive the digital
age; and more.
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tariq-ramadan-on-islam-west
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-quiggin-on-utopia
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/louise-foxcroft-on-history-medicine-and-addiction
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nick-harkaway-on-negotiating-digital-age
Next week, keep your eyes open for book recommendations on Afghanistan,
political satire, the sporting life, and Anatole Kaletsky's take on the
long-term fallout of the financial crisis.
Make sure to follow us on [9]Twitter and [10]Facebook to not miss out!
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9. https://twitter.com/#!/thebrowser
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FiveBooks News
[11]Tariq Ramadan on Islam in the West
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tariq-ramadan-on-islam-west
Friday May 25
The Islamic scholar and commentator tells us what it means to be Muslim
and Western, and explains how mainstream views get trapped between
noisy extremism and a sensation-seeking media [12]Continue reading…
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tariq-ramadan-on-islam-west
[13]Louise Foxcroft on the History of Medicine and Addiction
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/louise-foxcroft-on-history-medicine-and-addiction
Thursday May 24
The historian prescribes reading on medical practices of the past, from
treatments of madness and non-existent disease, to drug use and the
origins of hypochondria [14]Continue reading…
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/louise-foxcroft-on-history-medicine-and-addiction
[15]Nick Harkaway on Negotiating the Digital Age
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nick-harkaway-on-negotiating-digital-age
Wednesday May 23
The challenges – and opportunities – of our times have never been
greater. Everything from our models of political participation to the
very architecture of our brains is at stake, says the novelist and
technology blogger [16]Continue reading…
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nick-harkaway-on-negotiating-digital-age
[17]Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström on Swedish Crime Writing
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anders-roslund-and-börge-hellström-on-swedish-crime-writing
Tuesday May 22
The celebrated Swedish crime-writing duo take turns to recommend
gripping and grisly Scandinavian thrillers, as well as to tell us about
visiting prison – and being in it [18]Continue reading…
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anders-roslund-and-börge-hellström-on-swedish-crime-writing
[19]John Quiggin on Utopia
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-quiggin-on-utopia
Monday May 21
The Australian economist and author of Zombie Economics says we need to
inspire people with a view of a better society that we can achieve
within our available resources [20]Continue reading…
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-quiggin-on-utopia
[21]A Life Worth Ending
Links:
21. http://b.rw/JfWqYO
Michael Wolff | New York | 20 May 2012
Son's plea to let his mother go. "By promoting longevity and
technologically inhibiting death, we have created a new biological
status held by an ever-growing part of the nation, a no-exit state
nearly as remote from life as death" [22]More like this
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[23]London and the Olympics
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
The Games creep ever closer, though in London you'd hardly know it.
Here's a sideways look at the event and its host city [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
[25]Tweets from Tahrir by Alex Nunns and Nadia Idle (editors)
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/tweets-tahrir-by-alex-nunns-and-nadia-idle-editors
[26]Nick Harkaway says: "This could not have existed before the digital
age. It is a genuine live stream of what took place" [27]FiveBooks
Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nick-harkaway-on-negotiating-digital-age
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[28]How To Tell You're An Atheist
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/how-tell-youre-atheist
Daniel Dennett speaks
[29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[30]Curtis White, on free speech
Links:
30. http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/19/good-lines
"In the United States, everyone may enjoy freedom of speech so long
as it doesn’t matter"
[31]More quotes
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
@prospect_uk A new book on evolution by a great biologist makes a slew
of mistakes, says @RichardDawkins http://t.co/P7vfXb3i
[33]#browsings [34]More like this
Links:
33. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
34. http://thebrowser.com/browsings