FiveBooks Newsletter 88
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
Be sure to explore this week's stellar offering of FiveBooks interviews
at The Browser, including: former war reporter and independent MP
[5]Martin Bell on reportage and war; technology writer [6]Nicholas Carr
on the information age and how the Internet is splitting our attention;
former bishop of Oxford [7]Richard Harries on Christianity; and
[8]Peggy Orenstein on parenting outside of gender stereotypes.
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/martin-bell-on-reportage-and-war
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nicholas-carr-on-impact-information-age
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-harries-on-christianity
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peggy-orenstein-on-gender-trap
Next week, keep your eyes peeled for recommended reading from Adam
Gopnik on essay collections, Andy Borowitz on humour and satire, and
much more. Thanks for following us!
FiveBooks News
[9]Martin Bell on Reportage and War
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/martin-bell-on-reportage-and-war
Friday March 2
The former BBC war reporter picks out essential reading on the Bosnia
and Vietnam wars and explains why a book of poetry speaks more to him
about the reality of conflict than any other writing [10]Continue
reading…
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/martin-bell-on-reportage-and-war
[11]Nicholas Carr on Impact of the Information Age
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nicholas-carr-on-impact-information-age
Thursday March 1
Is the Internet dividing our attention? Are we so buried in technology
that we ignore one another? The technology writer discusses the history
and implications of the information age, from the mechanical clock to
the iPhone [12]Continue reading…
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nicholas-carr-on-impact-information-age
[13]Peggy Orenstein on the Gender Trap
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peggy-orenstein-on-gender-trap
Wednesday February 29
From an early age, girls learn to be pretty in pink while boys are
marketed a prepackaged masculinity. The author of Cinderella Ate My
Daughter explains how parents can give their children a broader, more
imaginative outlook [14]Continue reading…
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peggy-orenstein-on-gender-trap
[15]Jonathan Evison on The American West
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jonathan-evison-on-american-west
Tuesday February 28
The acclaimed novelist, and resident of Washington state, recommends
fiction that captures a sense of the rugged landscape and people of the
American West [16]Continue reading…
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jonathan-evison-on-american-west
[17]Richard Harries on Christianity
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-harries-on-christianity
Monday February 27
The former bishop of Oxford tells us about books that explore what it
means to be a Christian – from St Augustine and medieval mysticism to
grappling with Dostoyevsky and more modern dilemmas [18]Continue
reading…
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-harries-on-christianity
[19]I Was A Warehouse Wage Slave
Links:
19. http://b.rw/zSgOBM
Mac McClelland | Mother Jones | 27 February 2012
Portrait of the American workplace in all its horror. Intrepid reporter
goes to work in warehouse owned by, or servicing, unnamed online retail
giant. Impossible targets; negligible pay; if you don't like it, you're
fired [20]More like this
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[21]How To Die
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/how-die
How to face the end? Peacefully? Still fighting? With all of medicine's
help? Or naturally? [22]Read on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/reports/how-die
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
[23]The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/brothers-karamazov-by-fyodor-dostoevsky
[24]Richard Harries says: “A great novel of belief and unbelief."
[25]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-harries-on-christianity
25. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[26]The City of Samba
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/videos/city-samba
Tell me you don't want to go to Rio after seeing this
[27]More videos
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[28]Roy Amara, on change
Links:
28. http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/02/29/just-add-water
"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two
years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10"
[29]More quotes
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k RT @baselinescene: House Republicans: Making the United States
More Like Greece, #whburning preview [30]t.co/uKdpvMcV #gfc2
[31]#browsings [32]More like this
Links:
30. http://t.co/uKdpvMcV
31. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
32. http://thebrowser.com/browsings