FiveBooks Newsletter 66

30 Sep 2011 • 3 min read

[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com

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We're delighted to have an interview with the documentary filmmaker [5]Errol
Morris today, whose new book examines what photographs do and don't tell us.
He explains how images have been manipulated ever since photography was
invented, and how we're still not wise to it.
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/errol-morris-on-photography-and-reality

Earlier in the week, [6]David Spiegelhalter gave us a fascinating insight
into the use and misuse of statistics. The interview's a great combination
of the fun and the authoritative. We do hope you'll enjoy it.
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-spiegelhalter-on-statistics-and-risk

Next week, we'll be tackling subjects as diverse as perfume and the history
of violence. Don't miss it!

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[7]Errol Morris on Photography and Reality
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/errol-morris-on-photography-and-reality

Friday September 30

The acclaimed documentary filmmaker tells us about his fascination with
images, meaning and truth. And how we’ve learned to think and read
critically but still don’t see critically [8]Continue reading…
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/errol-morris-on-photography-and-reality

[9]Dahlia Lithwick on US Supreme Court Justices
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dahlia-lithwick-on-us-supreme-court-justices

Thursday September 29

Who are the men and women in black robes who sit on America’s highest
judicial bench? A legal correspondent takes us inside this most influential
institution through a look at some of its most fascinating characters
[10]Continue reading…
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dahlia-lithwick-on-us-supreme-court-justices

[11]Austin Frakt on US Healthcare Reform
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/austin-frakt-on-us-healthcare-reform

Wednesday September 28

If you were starting from scratch, no one would design a healthcare system
like America’s. The health economist tells us how it evolved, why it’s
preposterous and what needs to change [12]Continue reading…
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/austin-frakt-on-us-healthcare-reform

[13]William Fiennes on First-Person Narratives
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/william-fiennes-on-first-person-narratives

Tuesday September 27

Writing in the first person doesn’t have to be inward-looking or
egotistical, says the author of The Snow Geese. He tells us about his
favourite autobiographical works that use the first person to look out into
the world [14]Continue reading…
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/william-fiennes-on-first-person-narratives

[15]David Spiegelhalter on Statistics and Risk
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-spiegelhalter-on-statistics-and-risk

Sunday September 25

Every statistic is the result of someone’s work, and we’d do well to ask
ourselves why it was created. That way, says the statistician, we have a
better chance of working out when dangers are being overstated and data
misused [16]Continue reading…
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-spiegelhalter-on-statistics-and-risk

[17]The Hero No One Knew
Links:
17. http://b.rw/ouiLSu

Jeff Pearlman | Sports Illustrated | 27 September 2011

Walter Payton retired in 1988 as the greatest running back in American
football history. What happened next was by turns inspiring, chaotic and
regrettable. And after all the laughing gas, guns and burgers, it was
finally tragic [18]More like this
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/best

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