FiveBooks Newsletter 87
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
Don't miss our interview today with award-winning literary translator
[5]Edith Grossman. She recommends five books on or of translation that
she loves, and shares insights about translation as the medium for
literary influence.
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edith-grossman-on-translation
Also on the site: security guru [6]Bruce Schneier reflects on the
relationship between security and trust; historian [7]Gabriel Piterberg
turns a critical eye on Zionism; [8]David Goodhart discusses
immigration and multiculturalism; and best-selling author [9]Sam Bourne
picks five classic thrillers.
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bruce-schneier-on-trust
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gabriel-piterberg-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-goodhart-on-immigration-and-multiculturalism
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sam-bourne-on-classic-thrillers
Keep following FiveBooks for more reading inspiration, including
Nicholas Carr on the Information Age and the Right Reverend Lord
Richard Harries on Christianity. Thanks for reading us!
FiveBooks News
[10]Edith Grossman on Translation
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edith-grossman-on-translation
Friday February 24
The award-winning literary translator discusses books on and of
translation that inspired her, and considers the trade-off between
fidelity and meaning that every translator faces [11]Continue reading…
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edith-grossman-on-translation
[12]Bruce Schneier on Trust
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bruce-schneier-on-trust
Thursday February 23
Modern society depends on trust more than we realise, and the basis for
that trust is security. The trick, says the security guru, is
preserving the forces that allow us to trust one another, while also
knowing who not to trust [13]Continue reading…
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bruce-schneier-on-trust
[14]Gabriel Piterberg on Zionism and Anti-Zionism
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gabriel-piterberg-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism
Wednesday February 22
An Israeli historian, who rejects Zionism, tells us about works of
scholarship that have challenged the Zionist Israeli narrative of
modern history [15]Continue reading…
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gabriel-piterberg-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism
[16]David Goodhart on Immigration and Multiculturalism
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-goodhart-on-immigration-and-multiculturalism
Tuesday February 21
Managing immigration has become a key political question of our times.
The author of a forthcoming book on the subject tells us about the
British experience, and what helps multiculturalism succeed or fail
[17]Continue reading…
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-goodhart-on-immigration-and-multiculturalism
[18]Sam Bourne on Classic Thrillers
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sam-bourne-on-classic-thrillers
Monday February 20
The bestselling author of The Righteous Men tells us how his other job
as a political journalist helps with thriller writing, and what makes
le Carré, Forsyth and Buchan such masters of their trade [19]Continue
reading…
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sam-bourne-on-classic-thrillers
[20]The Sense Of An Ending
Links:
20. http://b.rw/zSyLPm
Stephen Holmes & Ivan Krastev | Transit / Eurozine | 17 February 2012
"By engineering rigged elections that nobody bothered or dared to
protest, Putin managed to conceal his regime's deepest secret, namely
that Russia, rather than being misgoverned, is governed very laxly if
at all" [21]More like this
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[22]Wine
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/reports/wine
From filthy plonk to first growth Bordeaux, there's something for every
palate in our cultural and historical survey of wine [23]Read on
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/wine
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
[24]Fatherland by Robert Harris
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/fatherland-by-robert-harris
[25]Sam Bourne says: "As an example of a very well realised
high-concept thriller, you don’t get much better than Fatherland"
[26]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sam-bourne-on-classic-thrillers
26. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Quote of the Week
[27]Henry Ford, on innovation
Links:
27. http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2012/02/the-balance-wheel-of-civilization
"Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking
on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if
they are good ideas"
[28]More quotes
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
@obitmag The Death of Colonialism? A #slideshow of Yinka Shonibare's
New #Photography Pose the Question http://t.co/EfWHQyrA
[30]#browsings [31]More like this
Links:
30. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
31. http://thebrowser.com/browsings