FiveBooks Newsletter 86
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]Christina Romer – professor of economics and
former advisor to President Obama – discusses the lessons of the Great
Depression, and says America need a "regime shift" in economic policy.
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/christina-romer-on-learning-great-depression
Also on the site: best-selling author [6]Tess Gerritsen picks her
favourite thrillers; Arabist [7]Tim Mackintosh-Smith talks about
travelling the Muslim world; bibliotherapist [8]Ella Berthoud
recommends literature on love; and historian [9]Antony Beevor considers
the Second World War.
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tess-gerritsen-on-favourite-thrillers
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-mackintosh-smith-on-travelling-muslim-world
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ella-berthoud-on-love-literature
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/antony-beevor-on-world-war-ii
Keep checking into our [10]homepage for upcoming interviews with Bruce
Schneier on trust, David Goodhart on immigration, Edith Grossman on
translation, alongside daily article links and much more.
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com
FiveBooks News
[11]Christina Romer on Learning from the Great Depression
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/christina-romer-on-learning-great-depression
Friday February 17
The former chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers says
we’ve learned that terrible downturns can still occur, but also that
the right policy response can make a huge difference to the outcome
[12]Continue reading…
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/christina-romer-on-learning-great-depression
[13]Tess Gerritsen on Favourite Thrillers
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tess-gerritsen-on-favourite-thrillers
Thursday February 16
The bestselling author says a good thriller isn't about the violence or
bloodshed; it's about making the reader feel off-balance and as if
something isn’t quite right. She tells us about books that grab you and
don't let go [14]Continue reading…
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tess-gerritsen-on-favourite-thrillers
[15]Antony Beevor on World War II
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/antony-beevor-on-world-war-ii
Wednesday February 15
The author of Stalingrad and Berlin tells us about five key works on
the Second World War, from the War and Peace of the 20th century to
superlative accounts of Hitler and the atrocities of Stalin
[16]Continue reading…
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/antony-beevor-on-world-war-ii
[17]Ella Berthoud on Love in Literature
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ella-berthoud-on-love-literature
Tuesday February 14
For Valentine's Day, we asked a bibliotherapist to prescribe some
reading on love. Rekindle your relationship, remember first passions
and beware obsessive love with help from these suggestions [18]Continue
reading…
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ella-berthoud-on-love-literature
[19]Tim Mackintosh-Smith on Travelling in the Muslim World
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-mackintosh-smith-on-travelling-muslim-world
Monday February 13
The author and eminent Arabist tells us about the rich tradition in
Islam of travelling to gain knowledge, and directs us towards some of
those, both Western and Arab, who’ve inspired with their tales of life
on the road [20]Continue reading…
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-mackintosh-smith-on-travelling-muslim-world
[21]Obama, Explained
Links:
21. http://b.rw/yDrgfJ
James Fallows | Atlantic | 9 February 2012
Monumental retrospective of US president's first term. Should we think
of him as the "chess master", able to think 10 moves ahead of his
opponents? Or as a mere pawn? Fallows considers in this 12,000-word
essay [22]More like this
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[23]The Writing of Anthony Shadid
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/writing-anthony-shadid
A selection of recent despatches by Anthony Shadid (1968-2012), one of
the best reporters working in the Middle East in the past 10 years
[24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/writing-anthony-shadid
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
[25]Night and Horses and the Desert by Robert Irwin (editor)
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/night-and-horses-and-desert-by-robert-irwin-editor
[26]Tim Mackintosh-Smith says: "There is no better anthology of Arabic
literature" [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-mackintosh-smith-on-travelling-muslim-world
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[28]Future Hipsters
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/future-hipsters
Social Media Week looks fifty years ahead [29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[30]EM Cioran, on God
Links:
30. http://www.fraglit.com/impassioned/quotations/aphorisms/cioran-p.htm
"If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God
long ago"
[31]More quotes
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
@utnereader An open letter from a Guatemalan reporter on living life
under the gun. http://t.co/PVQH2VZA #browsings [32]#browsings [33]More
like this
Links:
32. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
33. http://thebrowser.com/browsings