FiveBooks Newsletter 78
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
This week on FiveBooks, we invited economist [5]Daron Acemoglu to talk about
inequality, historian [6]Lynn Hunt to shed light on the French revolution,
and best-selling author [7]Lev Grossman to recommend fantasy books –
alongside other interviews on China, the Victorians and the siege of
Leningrad.
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/daron-acemoglu-on-inequality
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lynn-hunt-on-french-revolution
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lev-grossman-on-fantasy
Next week, look out for music journalist Greil Marcus on rock 'n roll,
novelist Mona Simpson on family stories, and get geared up for Christmas
with Dr Bruce Forbes on yuletide history.
Check in to The Browser's [8]homepage for all of this and more – including
the best articles and videos from around the web, and our [9]special report
in memory of Christopher Hitchens.
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com
9. http://thebrowser.com/reports/christopher-hitchens-0
FiveBooks News
[10]Lev Grossman on Fantasy
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lev-grossman-on-fantasy
Friday December 16
We're living through a golden age for fantasy fiction, says the author of
_The Magicians_. He tells us what makes for a good fantasy novel, and who's
staking out the future not just of fantasy but of fiction itself
[11]Continue reading…
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lev-grossman-on-fantasy
[12]Lynn Hunt on the French Revolution
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lynn-hunt-on-french-revolution
Thursday December 15
It's a revolution that still resonates and yet it resists easy
interpretation. A leading historian of the French Revolution tells us what
the events of 1789 and later years really meant, and what relevance they
have for us today [13]Continue reading…
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lynn-hunt-on-french-revolution
[14]Daron Acemoglu on Inequality
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/daron-acemoglu-on-inequality
Wednesday December 14
The US, the UK and many other countries have become far less equal over the
past 30 years. The MIT economics professor says it's important we understand
how and why this happened, and what it means for our societies [15]Continue
reading…
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/daron-acemoglu-on-inequality
[16]Rana Mitter on 100 Years of Modern China
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rana-mitter-on-100-years-modern-china
Tuesday December 13
A century after the fall of China’s last imperial dynasty, the legacy of
revolution remains deeply ambiguous in today’s People’s Republic. The China
scholar tells us the story of the country’s tumultuous changes from 1911 to
2011 [17]Continue reading…
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rana-mitter-on-100-years-modern-china
[18]Judith Flanders on Life in the Victorian Age
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/judith-flanders-on-life-victorian-age
Monday December 12
History books often focus on big political or economic events, wars and
leaders. But there's much to learn from studying the way people lived, and
what made the Victorian age both like and unlike our own, as the author
explains [19]Continue reading…
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/judith-flanders-on-life-victorian-age
[20]Anna Reid on the Siege of Leningrad
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anna-reid-on-siege-leningrad
Sunday December 11
Glorified by Russia, glossed over by the West, the siege of Leningrad is
rarely seen for what it was – a tragic story of tremendous suffering and
death. The author of a new book on the subject tells us what really happened
there [21]Continue reading…
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anna-reid-on-siege-leningrad
[22]Person Of The Year: The Protester
Links:
22. http://b.rw/roUgoR
Kurt Andersen et al | Time | 14 December 2011
It began in Tunisia in December 2010. "My son set himself on fire for
dignity," says Mannoubia Bouazizi. If only that frustrated and despairing
young man, Mohamed Bouazizi, knew what his action had helped inspire
[23]More like this
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[24]Christopher Hitchens
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/christopher-hitchens-0
Remembering the superlative essayist, polemicist and debater [25]Read on
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/reports/christopher-hitchens-0
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
[26]The Once and Future King by T H White
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/once-and-future-king-by-t-h-white
[27]Lev Grossman says: "A thoroughly modern re-imagining of the story of
King Arthur" [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lev-grossman-on-fantasy
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[29]'Loreley'
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/loreley
Sand art. Amazing
[30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[31]Maud Newton, on delay
Links:
31. http://twitter.com/maudnewton/status/146384694437625856
"I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work
to accumulate urgency"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
_@whitebluewhite_ Rt _@stas_kulesh_: 360dgree panoramic image of protest in
Moscow, Russia on 10th of December. 100 000+ attended
http://t.co/6TBpAzIw [34]#browsings [35]More like this
Links:
34. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
35. http://thebrowser.com/browsings