FiveBooks Newsletter 44
This week on FiveBooks, we brought you conversations with American feminist
legend Erica Jong, _Economist_ correspondent and language blogger Robert
Lane Greene, and – last but most definitely not least – star novelist Ian
McEwan. You'll find these three interviews, as well as several other
illuminating reads, at the links below.
Please also be sure to check out today's interview with _[1]John Thorn_, the
Official Historian for Major League Baseball. He talks to us about the
history of the sport – and tells us why he thinks attending a ball game is
like watching a play by Aeschylus. Enjoy!
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-thorn-on-baseball
FiveBooks News
[2]Mark Malloch Brown on Globalisation
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mark-malloch-brown-on-globalisation
Monday April 18th
The Chief of Staff of the United Nations under Kofi Annan and former
Administrator of the UN Development Programme talks us through some of the
key ideas and institutions that helped develop globalisation [3]Continue
reading…
Links:
3. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mark-malloch-brown-on-globalisation
[4]Martin Marty on Religion versus Secularism in History
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/martin-marty-on-religion-versus-secularism-history
Tuesday April 19th
The professor of religious history says that though the world may seem to be
increasingly secular, the growth of Christianity and Islam in some places
disproves it. He chooses five books that fuel the debate [5]Continue
reading…
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/martin-marty-on-religion-versus-secularism-history
[6]Robert Lane Greene on Language and the Mind
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-lane-greene-on-language-and-mind
Wednesday April 20th
_Economist_ correspondent and author discusses "grammar grouches",
linguistic evolution, and why the world looks different in other languages
[7]Continue reading…
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-lane-greene-on-language-and-mind
[8]Erica Jong on Unmissable Books on Women, Feminism and Life
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/erica-jong-on-unmissable-books-women-feminism-and-life
Thursday April 21th
American feminist legend Erica Jong selects essential reading for women –
and says the revolution is far from over [9]Continue reading…
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/erica-jong-on-unmissable-books-women-feminism-and-life
[10]Ian McEwan on Books That Have Helped Shape His Novels
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ian-mcewan-on-five-books-have-influenced-my-novels
Friday April 22th
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’ [11]Continue reading…
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ian-mcewan-on-five-books-have-influenced-my-novels
[12]The Chernobyl That Nobody Wants
Links:
12. http://b.rw/f2b1aL
Barys Piatrovich | Eurozine | 22 April 2011
Gripping account of first month after Chernobyl's nuclear disaster. 25 years
ago, uncertainty turned to anxiety and then panic as "virtually the whole of
the radioactive end of Mendeleev's periodic table fell on Belarus"
Featured Topic
[13]Journalism
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/topics/journalism
Find out what it's really like to be a journalist. Read about the shadowy
world of foreign reporting, learn what makes a great article and delve into
the history of journalism
Book of the Week
[14]Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/einstein-his-life-and-universe-by-walter-isaacson
[15]Ian McEwan says: This biography shows us the creative exuberance of a
man with an extraordinary visual imagination.
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/einstein-his-life-and-universe-by-walter-isaacson
Video of the Week
[16]South Carolina Tea Partiers Speak Out
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/videos/south-carolina-tea-partiers-speak-out
I know, I had you at "South Carolina". And, by the way, they're really very
keen on Donald Trump
Quote of the Week
[17]John Wilbanks, on knowledge
Links:
17. http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/massively-distilled-scientific-wisdom
"Knowledge is a public good that increases in value as the number of
people possessing it increases"
Reader Recommendations
@chicoxperto Assistance to Timor-Leste: World Bankers bearing gifts –
_[18]goo.gl/b7Ygu_ #browsings via @polit2k | The Economist
Links:
18. http://goo.gl/b7Ygu