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