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

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[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