Newsletter 219
[1]Hitler vs. Stalin: Who Was Worse?
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1. http://b.rw/hiW1ua
Timothy Snyder | NYRB | 27 January 2011
Breathtaking. Brilliant. Snyder asks history's most loaded question, and
answers it with meticulous balance sheet. Stalin was first with ethnic
killing campaigns; murdered more people than Hitler; but fewer than we used
to think
[2]A Fine Balance
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2. http://b.rw/fuN8qn
Emily Gould | Intelligent Life | 28 January 2011
On yoga (a good thing), and yoga culture, an uneasy mix of merchandising and
self-help. "Articles about accepting your body are surrounded by photos of
young, lithe, mostly-white women showing off skin-tight, expensive spandex"
[3]How To Make Trillions of Dollars
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3. http://b.rw/g8kpRg
David Cain | Raptitude | 28 January 2011
Shrewd, funny, cynical critique of American consumer society. "You make
billions or trillions by conditioning an entire nation to react to every
inconvenience, every whim, every passing desire or fear, by buying
something"
[4]Hot Spotters
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4. http://b.rw/fVGLDJ
Atul Gawande | New Yorker | 24 January 2011
Another masterpiece by America's finest health care writer. Clinic in
Camden, New Jersey, gives intensive everyday care to neediest patients. It's
expensive—but it keeps them out of emergency room, which would cost millions
more
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Today's FiveBooks Interview
[6]Michael Burleigh on =HITLER=
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6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-burleigh-on-hitler
BFI award-winning historian and Royal Historical Society fellow paints
Hitler as a raving fantasist on to whom Germans projected their longings
[7]Continue reading…
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7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-burleigh-on-hitler
Topic
[8]Crime & Thriller Writing
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8. http://thebrowser.com/topics/crime-writing
Leading writers discuss their genre and select their top five essential
reads, plus selected articles on the murky world of thrillers and whodunnits
[9]Continue reading…
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9. http://thebrowser.com/topics/crime-writing
Book of the Day
[10]The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/hitler-myth-image-and-reality-third-reich-by-ian-kershaw
-by Ian Kershaw -
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More recommendations…
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11. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Browsings
[12]MarinaKCashdan From the Palettes of Babes: 5 Prodigious Child Artists to
Watch - [13]t.co/hI2EDgr, #[14]browsings
[15]More user recommended #browsings…
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