FiveBooks Newsletter 75

25 Nov 2011 • 4 min read

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

Today on FiveBooks, American singer-songwriter [5]Santigold talks about her
musical influences. She closes a week of compelling interviews, from history
professor [6]Michael Kazin on the roots of the Occupy movement to author
[7]Tim Parks on Italian fiction.
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/santigold-on-musical-influences
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-kazin-on-roots-occupy-movement
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-parks-on-italian-fiction

We also discovered the best five books of [8]science fiction and on [9]ocean
life. And professor [10]Colin Calloway told us about the truth behind the
story of Native Americans and colonists in time for Thanksgiving.
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/adam-roberts-on-science-fiction-classics
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/helen-scales-on-ocean-life
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/colin-calloway-on-native-americans-and-colonisers

Next week's line-up includes historian David Cannadine on the British
empire, art-critic Hal Foster on pop art, and David Lammy, MP for London's
Tottenham district, on what we must learn from the UK riots.

FiveBooks News

[11]Santigold on Musical Influences
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/santigold-on-musical-influences

Friday November 25

The singer-songwriter took an unusual route to becoming a performer. She
tells us how she got started, how to get what you want in the music business
and how an extraordinary range of influences continue to inspire her
[12]Continue reading…
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/santigold-on-musical-influences

[13]Colin Calloway on Native Americans and Colonisers
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/colin-calloway-on-native-americans-and-colonisers

Thursday November 24

As Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, the history professor tells us why
there's a lot more to the story of colonists and Native Americans than the
tale of the first Thanksgiving taught in school [14]Continue reading…
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/colin-calloway-on-native-americans-and-colonisers

[15]Michael Kazin on Roots of the Occupy Movement
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-kazin-on-roots-occupy-movement

Wednesday November 23

As police confront Occupy protesters, the history professor and co-editor of
Dissent magazine looks back at US leftist movements from abolitionism to
Vietnam to see where OWS came from and what it can learn from the past
[16]Continue reading…
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-kazin-on-roots-occupy-movement

[17]Adam Roberts on Science Fiction Classics
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/adam-roberts-on-science-fiction-classics

Tuesday November 22

The best sci-fi explores humanity’s anxieties and concerns and is in some
sense about the future. But it doesn’t try to predict what’s to come. The
literature professor and sci-fi writer recommends five classics of the genre
[18]Continue reading…
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/adam-roberts-on-science-fiction-classics

[19]Tim Parks on Italian Fiction
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-parks-on-italian-fiction

Monday November 21

The author, who’s lived in Italy for 30 years, takes us off the beaten track
through humour, satire and social history to recommend five richly rewarding
works of Italian fiction [20]Continue reading…
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-parks-on-italian-fiction

[21]Helen Scales on Ocean Life
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/helen-scales-on-ocean-life

Sunday November 20

We plunder the ocean for food, dump our waste in it, respect its wildlife
less than land-based creatures. Why? Is it a case of "out of sight, out of
mind"? A marine biologist tells us what's down there and what we're doing to
it [22]Continue reading…
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/helen-scales-on-ocean-life

[23]George’s God
Links:
23. http://b.rw/uTXNa0

Andrew Ferguson | Weekly Standard | 21 November 2011

Revisiting George Harrison, 10 years after his death from cancer. A man of
two halves. Good George was a modest fellow, devoted to spiritualism and
Krishna. Bad George had an "heroic capacity for cocaine, brandy, and
adultery" [24]More like this
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/best

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