FiveBooks Newsletter 76
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 we consider the context and aftermath of the UK riots
with [5]David Lammy, MP for Tottenham where they began. He criticises our
hyper-individualistic culture and says we must give the working class a
stake in capitalism.
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-lammy-on-context-uk-riots
Also on the feature, Tintinologist [6]Michael Farr discusses the enduring
appeal of Hergé, historian [7]David Cannadine reflects on the British
Empire, and we discover the best books to read on [8]Paris and [9]pop art.
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-farr-on-tintin
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-cannadine-on-british-empire
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-downie-on-paris
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/hal-foster-on-pop-art
Next week, bestselling author Peter James picks crime books, historian Mike
Dash takes a look at the flip side of history, and Steve Job's sister Mona
Simpson considers family stories. Follow The Browser on [10]twitter and
[11]facebook for all this and much more!
Links:
10. http://twitter.com/#!/TheBrowser
11. http://www.facebook.com/Thebrowser
FiveBooks News
[12]David Lammy on Context of the UK Riots
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-lammy-on-context-uk-riots
Friday December 2
We're richer and freer as a society than we used to be but it's now clear
there are downsides too. The MP for Tottenham, where the riots began, says
we've created a hyper-individualistic culture and explains how we must
change it [13]Continue reading…
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-lammy-on-context-uk-riots
[14]Michael Farr on Tintin
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-farr-on-tintin
Thursday December 1
Why do the Tintin stories have such enduring appeal? A Tintinologist tells
us what makes them special, how their creator, Hergé, came to write them,
and why he was accused of being a Nazi collaborator [15]Continue reading…
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-farr-on-tintin
[16]David Downie on Paris
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-downie-on-paris
Wednesday November 30
The city of romance and art is also, like most big cities, a place of grit
and grime. The American writer and long-time Paris resident tells us where
to look if we're to understand the people and past of this most alluring
city [17]Continue reading…
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-downie-on-paris
[18]Hal Foster on Pop Art
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/hal-foster-on-pop-art
Tuesday November 29
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 much, much more [19]Continue reading…
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/hal-foster-on-pop-art
[20]David Cannadine on the British Empire
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-cannadine-on-british-empire
Monday November 28
The history professor tells us why it’s less interesting to argue about
whether Empire was a force for good or ill, than to understand how it worked
and why it fell apart. He suggests a reading list to get us started
[21]Continue reading…
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-cannadine-on-british-empire
[22]Reader, I Marinated It
Links:
22. http://b.rw/v7TRaS
Mark Crick | Independent | 25 November 2011
Imagining how Virginia Woolf, Geoffrey Chaucer and Raymond Chandler would
have fared as food writers. From Lamb with Dill Sauce à la Raymond Chandler:
"I took hold of the joint. It felt cold and damp, like a coroner's
handshake" [23]More like this
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[24]The Occupy Movement
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/occupy-movement
From New York to California, and many places inbetween, they are protesting.
But who are they, what do they want and what does it all mean? [25]Read on
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/reports/occupy-movement
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
[26]The Belly of Paris by Emile Zola (translated by Mark Kurlansky)
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/belly-paris-by-emile-zola-translated-mark-kurlansky
[27]David Downie says: "It’s about an individual who finds himself alienated
from the rich, brilliant new society of Paris" [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-downie-on-paris
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[29]Page 23
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/page-23
And when you close the Ikea catalogue. What do all those smiling models do
then? [30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[31]Anonymous, on bankers
Links:
31. http://kottke.org/11/12/give-a-man-a-bank-and-he-can-rob-the-world
"Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob
the world"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
_@prospect_uk_ The crime-buster "princeling" wooing China with his red songs
and Maoist texts. Meet Bo Xilai http://t.co/c9HP53j9 [34]#browsings
[35]More like this
Links:
34. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
35. http://thebrowser.com/browsings