FiveBooks Newsletter 107
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]Kyle Pruett talks about fatherhood;
[6]Nicholas Ostler picks books on the history and diversity of
language; [7]Oliver Burkeman tells us how to achieve happiness through
negative thinking; and Harvard professor [8]Bernard Bailyn considers
Atlantic history.
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/kyle-pruett-on-fatherhood
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nicholas-ostler-on-history-and-diversity-language
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/oliver-burkeman-on-happiness-through-negative-thinking
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bernard-bailyn-on-atlantic-history
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[9]Bernard Bailyn on Atlantic History
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bernard-bailyn-on-atlantic-history
Friday July 13
The Harvard professor and Pulitzer prize-winning historian recommends
reading on three centuries of empire, conflict and slave trading
between the Americas, Europe and Africa [10]Continue reading…
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bernard-bailyn-on-atlantic-history
[11]Oliver Burkeman on Happiness Through Negative Thinking
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/oliver-burkeman-on-happiness-through-negative-thinking
Thursday July 12
You won’t become happy by trying to achieve happiness so why not
embrace the full repertoire of human emotions? There’s much solace and
consolation to be had if you know where to look, as the author of The
Antidote explains [12]Continue reading…
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/oliver-burkeman-on-happiness-through-negative-thinking
[13]Will Brooker on Comics
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-brooker-on-comics
Wednesday July 11
Fed up of superhero films? Hiding your copy of Watchmen behind The
Economist on the train? Comics are a serious literary form as well as
being fun, says the author of a new book on Batman [14]Continue
reading…
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-brooker-on-comics
[15]Nicholas Ostler on the History and Diversity of Language
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nicholas-ostler-on-history-and-diversity-language
Tuesday July 10
The scholar of language tells us about the progress of the spoken word
from 3000 BC to today, how two languages disappear every month, and the
50,000-word novel written without using the letter “e” [16]Continue
reading…
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nicholas-ostler-on-history-and-diversity-language
[17]Kyle Pruett on Fatherhood
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/kyle-pruett-on-fatherhood
Monday July 9
Fathers and mothers play very different roles in a child’s development,
says the professor of child psychiatry, who recommends essential
reading for both parents [18]Continue reading…
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/kyle-pruett-on-fatherhood
[19]Is The Web Driving Us Mad?
Links:
19. http://b.rw/L3kPR6
Tony Dokoupil | Newsweek | 8 July 2012
"No one is arguing for some kind of Amish future. But the research is
now making it clear that the Internet is not 'just' another delivery
system. It is creating a whole new mental environment." Measured piece,
despite the headline [20]More like this
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[21]Globalisation
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/globalisation
A collection of thought-provoking articles and interviews on the
challenges of globalisation [22]Read on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/reports/globalisation
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
[23]The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/andy-warhol-diaries-by-andy-warhol
[24]Craig Brown says: “They give a feel for the freneticism of New York
at that time" [25]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/andy-warhol-diaries-by-andy-warhol
25. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[26]Swimming With A Manatee
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/videos/swimming-manatee
They're endangered. You know what to do
[27]More videos
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[28]Jean Cocteau, on critics
Links:
28. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2757/the-art-of-fiction-no-93-john-irving
"Listen very carefully to the first criticisms of your work. Note
just what it is about your work that the reviewers don’t like; it
may be the only thing in your work that is original and worthwhile"
[29]More quotes
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
@David73277 'From PhD to BBC': are academic historians too hungry for
fame? Asks @earlymodernjohn [30]t.co/5UYsYTvS [31]#browsings [32]More
like this
Links:
30. http://t.co/5UYsYTvS
31. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
32. http://thebrowser.com/browsings