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

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[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