FiveBooks Newsletter 104
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: [5]Matthew Engel considers what it means to be
British; [6]Robert Macfarlane reads about wild landscapes; [7]Bettany
Hughes discusses divine women in the ancient world; [8]Peter Bergen
tells us what we didn't know about Osama bin Laden; and much more.
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/matthew-engel-on-britishness
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-macfarlane-on-wild-places
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bettany-hughes-on-divine-women
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peter-bergen-on-osama-bin-laden
Next week, look out for Sarah Churchwell on The Great Gatsby, Sebastian
Seung on identity and the mind, and the best books on Greek cooking.
Thanks for reading!
FiveBooks News
[9]Matthew Engel on Britishness
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/matthew-engel-on-britishness
Thursday June 21
Britain is a bewilderingly motley nation of phlegmatic grumblers, says
the author and editor – a seaside resort-going, class-conscious people
haunted by loss of empire, and we can’t even agree on what the country
is called [10]Continue reading…
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/matthew-engel-on-britishness
[11]Peter Bergen on Osama bin Laden
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peter-bergen-on-osama-bin-laden
Thursday June 21
Many thought that 9/11 was the start of an Al-Qaeda assault on the
West, but it turned out to be Bin Laden’s Pearl Harbor – a victory that
led to strategic defeat – says one of the few reporters who met the
Saudi-born militant [12]Continue reading…
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peter-bergen-on-osama-bin-laden
[13]Andrew Gelman on How Americans Vote
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andrew-gelman-on-how-americans-vote
Wednesday June 20
As the US gears up for Obama-Romney 2012, the statistician and author
of Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State uncovers the (often
surprising) realities of how Americans of different backgrounds vote
[14]Continue reading…
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andrew-gelman-on-how-americans-vote
[15]Robert Macfarlane on Wild Places
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-macfarlane-on-wild-places
Tuesday June 19
The author of an acclaimed trilogy about landscape and human thought
tells us about the intrepid, sometimes misanthropic writers who
inspired his own investigation of wilderness [16]Continue reading…
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-macfarlane-on-wild-places
[17]Bettany Hughes on Divine Women
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bettany-hughes-on-divine-women
Monday June 18
Ancient history was a man’s world – but women were considered closer to
the gods. The historian and TV presenter reveals the secrets of
Athenian priestesses, Byzantine empresses and Stone Age fertility
goddesses [18]Continue reading…
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bettany-hughes-on-divine-women
[19]In Praise Of Leisure
Links:
19. http://b.rw/N3BAwn
Robert Skidelsky & Edward Skidelsky | Chronicle Review | 18 June 2012
Resuscitating economics as a moral science. "Let us imagine that
everyone has enough to lead a good life. What is the good life? And
what is it not? And what changes in our moral and economic system are
needed to realise it?" [20]More like this
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[21]Human Modification
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/human-modification
Scientists are experimenting with different ways to enhance humans.
What's possible? And what may be possible in the future? Does messing
with Mother Nature raise ethical questions? [22]Read on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/reports/human-modification
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
[23]The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/living-mountain-by-nan-shepherd
[24]Robert Macfarlane says: "It’s a beautifully spare work – a
geo-philosophical meditation on how mind and place interpenetrate"
[25]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-macfarlane-on-wild-places
25. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[26]On The Internet, Nobody Knows You're A Cat
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/videos/internet-nobody-knows-youre-cat
This would make a good PSA, don't you think? [27]More videos
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[28]Adam Mars-Jones on writers
Links:
28. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n12/adam-mars-jones/anti-dad
"All writers overrate the impact of writing, or else they would
choose another line of work"
[29]More quotes
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
@[30]iainmanley "Don't worry about Bo Xilai...He's been through the
Cultural Revolution. This is nothing." [31]http://t.co/VzsAzcJc via
@[32]otherlisa [33]#browsings [34]More like this
Links:
30. https://twitter.com/#!/iainmanley
31. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/22/us-china-politics-bo-idUSBRE85L04E20120622
32. https://twitter.com/#!/otherlisa
33. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
34. http://thebrowser.com/browsings