FiveBooks Newsletter 115
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
FiveBooks News
[5]Carl Zimmer on The Strangeness of Life
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/carl-zimmer-on-strangeness-life
Friday September 7
The science writer and award-winning blogger discusses the strangeness
of life, from viruses to manipulative flatworms [6]Continue reading…
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/carl-zimmer-on-strangeness-life
[7]Keith Ellison on Progressivism
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/keith-ellison-on-progressivism
Thursday September 6
The co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus in the United
States tells us what progressives stand for and how they differ from
liberals [8]Continue reading…
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/keith-ellison-on-progressivism
[9]Eric Foner on the Evolution of Liberalism
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/eric-foner-on-evolution-liberalism
Wednesday September 5
The historian chooses five books illustrating how concepts of American
liberalism have changed over the past 50 years, and tells us about the
tension that lies at the heart of liberalism today
[10]Continue reading…
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/eric-foner-on-evolution-liberalism
[11]Hal Foster on Pop Art
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/hal-foster-on-pop-art
Tuesday September 4
What is pop art? Why did it catch on, and what does it mean? And what
about Warhol – was his work as superficial as he liked to say it was?
The art professor answers all this and more [12]Continue reading…
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/hal-foster-on-pop-art
[13]Ian McEwan on Books That Have Helped Shape His Novels
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ian-mcewan-on-five-books-have-influenced-my-novels
Monday September 3
Novelist Ian McEwan talks about the books that have helped shape his
own – from the biography of a scientific genius to a treatise on the
end of time – and the importance of finding ‘mental freedom’
[14]Continue reading…
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ian-mcewan-on-five-books-have-influenced-my-novels
[15]David Lebovitz on Desserts
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-lebovitz-on-desserts
Sunday September 2
Great desserts can be amazingly simple, and even low in fat. The pastry
chef and author cooks up a mouth-watering reading list to bring your
recipes up to date [16]Continue reading…
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-lebovitz-on-desserts
[17]I Often Have To Cut Into The Brain
Links:
17. http://b.rw/TTSuAK
Henry Marsh | Granta | 3 September 2012
Surgeon describes operation on pineal gland. "The idea that I am
cutting through thought itself, that memories, dreams and reflections
should have the consistency of soft white jelly, is simply too strange
to understand" [18]More like this
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[19]The Fall of Lance Armstrong
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/fall-lance-armstrong
Once a hero, but now the game is up. Here's how the aggressively
preserved reputation of Lance Armstrong finally crumbled [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/fall-lance-armstrong
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
[21]Pivotal Decade by Judith Stein
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/pivotal-decade-by-judith-stein
[22]Eric Foner says: “Stein’s critique is that in the 1970s liberals
embraced the shift from a manufacturing-based economy to a
finance-centred economy” [23]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/eric-foner-on-evolution-liberalism
23. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[24]Legitimate Rape
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/videos/legitimate-rape
"It's like regular birth control. Except it's imagined by crazy people"
[25]More videos
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[26]Geoff Dyer, on Conrad
Links:
26. http://www.guernicamag.com/features/ship-write
"Heart of Darkness is not just a book but a modern myth—everyone has
read it, even if they have not done so personally"
[27]More quotes
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
@dsnelles I wrote about the bizarre historical practice of putting
animals on trial for @maisonneuvemag: [28]t.co/f2CbBCD5 [29]#browsings
[30]More like this
Links:
28. http://t.co/f2CbBCD5
29. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
30. http://thebrowser.com/browsings