FiveBooks Newsletter 84
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 [5]Francis Fukuyama, author of "The End of History",
explores what the financial crisis has revealed about our political and
economic systems, and how it serves as an opportunity for reform.
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/francis-fukuyama-on-financial-crisis
Also on the site: best-selling author [6]Simon Winchester shares his
favourite American stories; history professor [7]Timothy Snyder
discusses dissent; [8]Mark Kurlansky selects science books he loves;
and [9]Emrys Westacott considers the philosophy of everyday life.
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/simon-winchester-on-american-stories
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/timothy-snyder-on-dissent
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mark-kurlansky-on-favourite-science-books
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/emrys-westacott-on-philosophy-and-everyday-living
Next week, look out for the best reading on capital punishment, gay
literature, Tibet and more, as recommended by experts. Thanks for
following!
FiveBooks News
[10]Francis Fukuyama on the Financial Crisis
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/francis-fukuyama-on-financial-crisis
Friday January 27
The author of "The End of History" says the financial crisis revealed a
great deal about the nature of America’s political and economic system.
The shame, he says, is that opportunities to change it are now being
ignored [11]Continue reading…
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/francis-fukuyama-on-financial-crisis
[12]Simon Winchester on American Stories
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/simon-winchester-on-american-stories
Thursday January 26
Modern America is a story of expanding frontiers, says the bestselling
author. He tells us about five novels that shed light on the social
history of his adopted homeland, from the late 19th century to the
Great Depression [13]Continue reading…
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/simon-winchester-on-american-stories
[14]Timothy Snyder on Dissent
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/timothy-snyder-on-dissent
Wednesday January 25
The history professor tells us what today’s dissidents can learn from
the experience of Eastern Europe and explains how Václav Havel leaves a
lasting legacy of how to challenge the over-mighty [15]Continue
reading…
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/timothy-snyder-on-dissent
[16]Mark Kurlansky on Favourite Science Books
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mark-kurlansky-on-favourite-science-books
Tuesday January 24
The bestselling author of Cod and Salt tells us about five science
books he loves – from whales and snails to evolution and string theory
– all of which make difficult subjects accessible [17]Continue reading…
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mark-kurlansky-on-favourite-science-books
[18]Emrys Westacott on Philosophy and Everyday Living
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/emrys-westacott-on-philosophy-and-everyday-living
Monday January 23
Philosophy is sometimes assumed to be a dry, academic subject but, in
reality, is anything but. A philosophy professor tells us how his
subject is at least as much about how we live, love and relate to each
other [19]Continue reading…
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/emrys-westacott-on-philosophy-and-everyday-living
[20]The Caging Of America
Links:
20. http://b.rw/x54R57
Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 23 January 2012
More than six million people are under "correctional supervision" in
the US – more than were in Stalin's Gulags. Why so many? This superb
account suggests there's been a serious failure of common sense and
humanity [21]More like this
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[22]The New Islamists
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/reports/new-islamists
The Arab Spring has created opportunities for the region's Islamist
movements. How will they behave once in, or near, power? [23]Read on
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/new-islamists
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
[24]The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/sound-wild-snail-eating-by-elisabeth-tova-bailey
[25]Mark Kurlansky says: "It is a beautiful little book written with a
real gentleness" [26]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mark-kurlansky-on-favourite-science-books
26. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[27]The Page Turner
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/videos/page-turner
It's the bit with the hairdryer and the hamster that clinches it for me
[28]More videos
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[29]Somerset Maugham, on quotations
Links:
29. http://twitter.com/randomhouse/status/162176714309513218
"A pretty gift for quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit"
[30]More quotes
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
@damienjoyce George Soros in @nybooks on how to save the #euro
http://t.co/ilNArl6T [32]#browsings [33]More like this
Links:
32. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
33. http://thebrowser.com/browsings