FiveBooks Newsletter 95
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
This week on FiveBooks: [5]Michael Lind discusses lessons of American
economic history; [6]Stephen Cave considers paths to immortality, from
the eternal soul to cryonics; Professor [7]Ann Blair explores the
history of information; historian [8]Keith Lowe talks about the
aftermath of World War II in Europe; and more.
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-lind-on-american-economic-history
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-cave-on-immortality
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ann-blair-on-history-information
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/keith-lowe-on-aftermath-world-war-two
Next week, we invite Carl Honoré, author of In Praise of Slow, to
discuss the slow movement, gender theorist Kate Bornstein to talk about
transgender books, and Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen to deepen
our understanding of the Euro crisis.
Thanks for reading us!
FiveBooks News
[9]Michael Lind on American Economic History
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-lind-on-american-economic-history
Friday April 20
The American economy has been driven by waves of technological change
and the successful adoption of ideas from elsewhere. The author of Land
of Promise tells us how it happened, and what history teaches us about
the way ahead [10]Continue reading…
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-lind-on-american-economic-history
[11]Stephen Cave on Immortality
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-cave-on-immortality
Thursday April 19
Will it be possible to live forever? Is there such a thing as the soul,
or immortality in one’s legacy? The author of a new book on immortality
explores the eternal questions, from elixirs of life to modern-day
cryonics [12]Continue reading…
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-cave-on-immortality
[13]Ann Blair on The History of Information
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ann-blair-on-history-information
Wednesday April 18
The history professor and author of Too Much to Know tells us what
researchers have been discovering about how earlier human societies
collected, organised and used information [14]Continue reading…
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ann-blair-on-history-information
[15]Keith Lowe on the Aftermath of World War II
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/keith-lowe-on-aftermath-world-war-two
Tuesday April 17
Europe after the war was a scene of both physical and moral
destruction. The author of Savage Continent recommends essential
reading for understanding the suffering, dislocation and fighting after
the war was over [16]Continue reading…
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/keith-lowe-on-aftermath-world-war-two
[17]Dennis McDougal on Southern California
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dennis-mcdougal-on-southern-california
Monday April 16
The writer dubbed “LA’s number one muckraker” peels away the phoney
baloney to tell us about power, pollution and pulp fiction in the City
of Angels [18]Continue reading…
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dennis-mcdougal-on-southern-california
[19]Another Night To Remember
Links:
19. http://b.rw/JdTtHN
Bryan Burrough | Vanity Fair | 19 April 2012
Reconstruction of the night the Costa Concordia became the largest
passenger ship ever wrecked. It's a "story of heroism and disgrace, and
also, in the mistakes of its captain and certain officers, a tale of
monumental human folly" [20]More like this
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[21]France Votes
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/france-votes
French people go to the polls this weekend to elect a new president.
How do they feel about the choice in front of them? [22]Read on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/reports/france-votes
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
[23]The Mortal Coil by David Boyd Haycock
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/mortal-coil-by-david-boyd-haycock
[24]Stephen Cave says: “This is about the path to immortality of just
staying alive, here in this body, forever and ever”[25]FiveBooks
Archive
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stephen-cave-on-immortality
25. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[26]Leonardo: Anatomist
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/videos/leonardo-anatomist
Wonderful short film looks at the anatomical drawings of Leonardo da
Vinci
[27]More videos
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[28]Toby Litt, on reading
Links:
28. http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/The-Reader-And-Technology
"The human race is no longer sufficently bored with life to be
distracted by an art form as boring as the novel"
[29]More quotes
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
@maisonneuvemag We expose bid-rigging, violence and sabotage at the
heart of Montreal snow removal:[30]t.co/DEeor6g8 #longreads #browsings
#muckreads [31]More like this
Links:
30. http://t.co/DEeor6g8
31. http://thebrowser.com/browsings