FiveBooks Newsletter 109
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
To mark the opening of the Olympics, we invited [5]David Runciman to
tell us about the last two times that the Games were staged in London,
in 1908 and 1948. Also on the site, [6]Ruth Harris talks about the
Belle Epoque, [7]Paul Seabright explains how cooperation is an
evolutionary imperative, as well as book recommendations on [8]sin and
[9]women readers. Thanks for reading Five Books!
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-runciman-on-london-olympic-history
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ruth-harris-on-dreyfus-and-belle-epoque
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-seabright-on-evolution-and-human-cooperation
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paula-fredriksen-on-sin
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/belinda-jack-on-history-women-readers
FiveBooks News
[10]David Runciman on London Olympic History
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-runciman-on-london-olympic-history
Thursday July 26
As the Olympics open, David Runciman looks back at the two previous
times that the Games have been staged in London and finds that the
thrift of today looks modest compared with austerities of the past
[11]Continue reading…
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-runciman-on-london-olympic-history
[12]Ruth Harris on Dreyfus and the Belle Epoque
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ruth-harris-on-dreyfus-and-belle-epoque
Wednesday July 25
The Belle Epoque combined a preoccupation with the noblesse of the old
regime with the seeds for modernism, says the Oxford professor of
history – who also explains the impact of the controversial Dreyfus
affair [13]Continue reading…
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ruth-harris-on-dreyfus-and-belle-epoque
[14]Belinda Jack on the History of Women Readers
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/belinda-jack-on-history-women-readers
Tuesday July 24
The freedom to pick up a book is something we take almost for granted
today but women readers have faced all manner of obstacles throughout
history, as the author of The Woman Reader explains [15]Continue
reading…
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/belinda-jack-on-history-women-readers
[16]Paul Seabright on Evolution and Human Cooperation
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-seabright-on-evolution-and-human-cooperation
Tuesday July 24
Think of Darwinian natural selection and you may think of selfish or
competitive behaviour, but this is far from the whole story, says the
author of The Company of Strangers [17]Continue reading…
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-seabright-on-evolution-and-human-cooperation
[18]Paula Fredriksen on Sin
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paula-fredriksen-on-sin
Monday July 23
Tortured by the sins of your past? Or contemplating new ones? The
historian of ancient Christianity recommends five books you won't
repent reading, to understand what sin really is [19]Continue reading…
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paula-fredriksen-on-sin
[20]A High Holy Whodunit
Links:
20. http://b.rw/LNhjPZ
Ronen Bergman | NYT | 25 July 2012
On the mystery of the Aleppo Codex, the oldest, most complete, most
accurate text of the Hebrew Bible. Some of it is in Jerusalem. The
story of how it got there and how some of its pages went missing is to
touch the rawest of nerves [21]More like this
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[22]After Aurora
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/reports/after-aurora
How does one make sense of such killings? And can we, will we, do
anything to stop it happening again? [23]Read on
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/after-aurora
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
[24]The 1908 Olympics by Keith Baker
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/1908-olympics-by-keith-baker
[25]David Runciman says: "In 1908 it was the athletes that fell out
over politics" [26]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-runciman-on-london-olympic-history
26. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[27]Boris Johnson's Olympic Welcome
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/videos/boris-johnsons-olympic-welcome
Cassetteboy is a great artist. Not a Leonardo, but surely the equal of
a Banksy [28]More videos
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[29]Stanley Kubrick, on life
Links:
29. http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/07/26/stanley-kubrick-playboy-interview
"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is
hostile, but that it is indifferent"
[30]More quotes
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
@[31]rszbt Ask for the bison sausage: MT @[32]nytimesscience: What You
Need to Know to Travel the Alaska Highway http://t.co/iIRESH6J
[34]#browsings [35]More like this
Links:
31. http://twitter.com/rszbt
32. http://twitter.com/nytimesscience
34. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
35. http://thebrowser.com/browsings