FiveBooks Newsletter 93

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]listen to philosopher AC Grayling consider what
it means to be good. He looks at classics of moral philosophy for some
of the answers, and says it is the act of trying to better oneself that
is itself the key to living well.
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ac-grayling-on-being-good

Also on the site: critic [6]Daniel Mendelsohn updates the classics;
author [7]Faramerz Dabhoiwala investigates sex in the 18th century;
historian [8]James Holland looks at unusual perspectives of World War
II; and more.
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/daniel-mendelsohn-on-updating-classics
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/faramerz-dabhoiwala-on-18th-century-sexual-revolution
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/james-holland-on-perspectives-world-war-ii

Next Tuesday, FiveBooks returns with Dava Sobel, award-winning author
of Longitude, discussing the early history of astronomy. See you then!

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[9]AC Grayling on Being Good
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ac-grayling-on-being-good

Friday April 6

What does a moral life entail? How does one achieve it? AC Grayling
looks at the classics of philosophy for the answers, and says that it
is the striving for goodness and self-improvement itself that is the
key to living well [10]Continue reading…
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ac-grayling-on-being-good

[11]Neil Fligstein on Economic Sociology
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/neil-fligstein-on-economic-sociology

Thursday April 5

The author of The Architecture of Markets says it’s important to
understand social aspects of economic behaviour, particularly when
times of crisis reveal shortcomings of traditional economic theory
[12]Continue reading…
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/neil-fligstein-on-economic-sociology

[13]Daniel Mendelsohn on Updating the Classics
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/daniel-mendelsohn-on-updating-classics

Wednesday April 4

The author and critic tells us how Homer is still relevant, and says
that to engage with the classics on their own terms means to play with
and adapt them [14]Continue reading…
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/daniel-mendelsohn-on-updating-classics

[15]Faramerz Dabhoiwala on the 18th Century Sexual Revolution
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/faramerz-dabhoiwala-on-18th-century-sexual-revolution

Tuesday April 3

The roots of our (generally) open attitude to sex lie not in the
sixties but the 1760s, says the historian and author of The Origins of
Sex, who explores this earlier sexual revolution through its literature
[16]Continue reading…
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/faramerz-dabhoiwala-on-18th-century-sexual-revolution

[17]James Holland on Perspectives of World War II
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/james-holland-on-perspectives-world-war-ii

Monday April 2

The author of a new book on the Dam Buster squadron tells us about
works of fiction or memoir that show the horror of the Second World War
in a human light and with fresh immediacy [18]Continue reading…
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/james-holland-on-perspectives-world-war-ii

[19]America’s Dream Unravels
Links:
19. http://b.rw/H5UjEC

Edward Luce | FT | 30 March 2012

Outstanding essay looks at America's economic and political malaise. A
country where the Walton family is worth as much as bottom 150 million.
"Brain power is America’s future. But it doesn’t always appear too
cerebral in practice" [20]More like this
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/best