FiveBooks Newsletter 103

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

Today on FiveBooks, [5]Paul Theroux tells us which travel books have
most inspired his own travels and writing – including how reading Mark
Twain led him to go on the journey that became The Great Railway
Bazaar.
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-theroux-on-travelling

Also on the site: Orwell prize shortlisted author [6]Gavin Knight
discusses gang crime; historian [7]Joseph Corn considers aviation past
and present; [8]Timothy Noah declaims the inequality crisis; and maths
writer [9]Dana Mackenzie talks about the beauty of mathematics.
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gavin-knight-on-gang-crime
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/joseph-corn-on-aviation-history
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/timothy-noah-on-inequality-crisis
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dana-mackenzie-on-beauty-and-fun-mathematics

Next week, look out for Bettany Hughes on divine women, Robert
MacFarlane on wild places, and much more. Thanks for reading!

FiveBooks News

[10]Paul Theroux on Travelling
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-theroux-on-travelling

Friday June 15

Travel is a leap in the dark, says Paul Theroux – and one that will
leave you a different person at the other end. He recommends five
travel books that inspired him, from Mark Twain at sea to VS Naipaul in
India [11]Continue reading…
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-theroux-on-travelling

[12]Joseph Corn on Aviation History
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/joseph-corn-on-aviation-history

Thursday June 14

The historian and author pilots us through a century of aviation, from
the excitement that greeted the first airplanes to the transformative
role of World War II and today’s frequent flyers [13]Continue reading…
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/joseph-corn-on-aviation-history

[14]Gavin Knight on Gang Crime
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gavin-knight-on-gang-crime

Wednesday June 13

Inner-city crime is a matter of deprivation not race, and comes from a
street culture that respects extreme violence, says the author of a new
book based on two years among British gangs and the police units
covering them [15]Continue reading…
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gavin-knight-on-gang-crime

[16]Timothy Noah on The Inequality Crisis
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/timothy-noah-on-inequality-crisis

Tuesday June 12

Income inequality has reached a crisis point in America, says the
author of The Great Divergence – yet with powerful nationwide pressure
to address the problem, there is also an opportunity for change
[17]Continue reading…
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/timothy-noah-on-inequality-crisis

[18]Dana Mackenzie on the Beauty and Fun of Mathematics
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dana-mackenzie-on-beauty-and-fun-mathematics

Monday June 11

From mathematical card tricks to an arrangement of interlocking
pentagons previously thought impossible, the maths writer explains why
solutions to maths problems can be as beautiful as paintings or
sculpture [19]Continue reading…
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dana-mackenzie-on-beauty-and-fun-mathematics

[20]Sartre, Camus And A Woman Called Wanda
Links:
20. http://b.rw/MsXH1N

Andy Martin | Telegraph | 7 June 2012

"Jean-Paul Sartre had one big problem: He looked like something hanging
off the outside of Notre Dame." Whereas rival philosopher Albert Camus
had the looks of a movie star. When they fell for the same woman things
got complicated [21]More like this
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/best