FiveBooks Newsletter 89
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
Yesterday, The Browser published its very first ebook, Best of
FiveBooks 2011. In it, we have collected 52 of our favourite interviews
from the feature, including conversations with Woody Allen, Ian McEwan,
Paul Krugman and Erica Jong. We invite you to download the book [5]here
if you're in the US, or [6]here for UK readers.
Links:
5. http://www.amazon.com/Best-of-FiveBooks-2011-ebook/dp/B007GAM6RC/tag=thebro-21
6. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-of-FiveBooks-2011-ebook/dp/B007GAM6RC?tag=thebro-21
Don't miss this week's interviews in your excitement: New Yorker writer
[7]Adam Gopnik chooses his favourite essay collections; neuroscientist
[8]Elaine Fox expains the cognitive benefits of optimism;
Pulitzer-Prize winning author [9]Anne Applebaum discusses memoirs of
communism; historian [10]David Kynaston considers post-war British
society; and literature scholar [11]Alexandra Harris helps us to
understand modernism.
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/adam-gopnik-on-favourite-essay-collections
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/elaine-fox-on-optimism
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anne-applebaum-on-memoirs-communism
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-kynaston-on-social-history-post-war-britain
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alexandra-harris-on-modernism
A warm thank you to all our readers!
FiveBooks News
[12]Alexandra Harris on Modernism
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alexandra-harris-on-modernism
Friday March 9
Modernism is about form more than content, says the scholar of English
literature. She tells us about the history of the movement, and picks
five works that exemplify or explain it [13]Continue reading…
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alexandra-harris-on-modernism
[14]Elaine Fox on Optimism
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/elaine-fox-on-optimism
Thursday March 8
The psychologist and professor of cognitive neuroscience reveals the
benefits of positive thinking – if grounded in realism – and why some
of us may be genetically predisposed towards pessimism, but can
overcome it [15]Continue reading…
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/elaine-fox-on-optimism
[16]Adam Gopnik on Favourite Essay Collections
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/adam-gopnik-on-favourite-essay-collections
Wednesday March 7
What makes a great essayist? What had it, who didn’t? And whose work
left the biggest mark on the New Yorker? A longtime writer for the
magazine picks out five masters of the craft [17]Continue reading…
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/adam-gopnik-on-favourite-essay-collections
[18]David Kynaston on Social History of Post-War Britain
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-kynaston-on-social-history-post-war-britain
Tuesday March 6
Until the 1970s, Britain was predominantly a working class society,
says the historian. He tells us about books that explore how this
changed, giving rise to the turbulent Thatcher years [19]Continue
reading…
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-kynaston-on-social-history-post-war-britain
[20]Anne Applebaum on Memoirs of Communism
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anne-applebaum-on-memoirs-communism
Monday March 5
The traumas of the 20th century hit Eastern Europe hard – a region of
changing borders, uncertain identity, and shattering of moral norms.
The journalist and communism expert selects books that capture the
spirit of the age [21]Continue reading…
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/anne-applebaum-on-memoirs-communism
[22]I'm Being Followed
Links:
22. http://b.rw/z50QNZ
Alexis Madrigal | Atlantic | 29 February 2012
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people
click ads." 105 companies (at least) are tracking your browsing habits
for money. It's why most web sites can seem free. You should probably
know about it [23]More like this
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[24]Israel and Iran
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/israel-and-iran
Will Israel bomb Iran? What is it telling the US, and what will
Washington do? And where does Iran stand? [25]Read on
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/reports/israel-and-iran
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
[26]Essays of EB White by EB White
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/essays-eb-white-by-eb-white
[27]Adam Gopnik says: "White, for me, is the great maker of the New
Yorker style" [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/adam-gopnik-on-favourite-essay-collections
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[29]Keep Calm And Carry On
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/keep-calm-and-carry
You've got the tea-mug. Here's the story [30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[31]Robert Shiller, on virtue
Links:
31. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-08/finance-logic-can-banish-corruption-part-4-commentary-by-robert-shiller.html
"Our desire for praise can be truly satisfied only if we deserve it.
No one is satisfied merely to look praiseworthy"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
@wonkmonk_ School for quants – Inside UCL’s Financial Computing Centre
http://t.co/8fh9eEVe @FT [34]#browsings [35]More like this
Links:
34. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
35. http://thebrowser.com/browsings