Newsletter 355

26 Jun 2011 • 3 min read

[5]Denis Forman's Guide To 'Die Meistersinger'
Links:
5. http://b.rw/mbdGwj

Denis Forman | Guardian | 24 June 2011

Brilliant, funny summary. "It's the acceptable face of Wagner. There are no
hang-ups with sex and sin, no power-mad dwarfs, no sprouting staves. Even
the racial propaganda can be played down except for a disagreeable final
outburst" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/denis-formans-guide-die-meistersinger

[7]Death In The Pot
Links:
7. http://b.rw/jP1VpO

Deborah Blum | Lapham's Quarterly | 23 June 2011

Brief history of food-poisoning, accidental and intentional. Mushrooms a
frequent player in both categories. Golden age of poisoners was in the early
19th century, before doctors discovered how to test for arsenic in the body
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/death-pot

[9]Swing For The Fences
Links:
9. http://b.rw/jJ58cs

David Runciman | LRB | 23 June 2011

Review of "Scorecasting", by Tobias Moskowitz and Jon Wertheim. A
"Freakonomics" for sports fans. Among the puzzles solved: Why home teams
have such an advantage. It's not the travel, or the local knowledge. It's
the refereeing [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/swing-fences

[11]Why Would Anyone Collect Nazi?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/ivTsTA

Ben Marks | Collector's Weekly | 23 June 2011

Is it OK to collect Nazi memorabilia? Collector's Weekly used to think not,
and would delete any such user postings. Now it has changed its mind. It
reckons you can be interested in the history, without endorsing the ideology
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-would-anyone-collect-nazi

[13]Ball Of Fire
Links:
13. http://b.rw/jL0VNZ

Jonathan Penner | LA Review of Books | 24 June 2011

Rollicking interview with biographer Jimmy McDonough. On Howard Hughes: "He
was pushed around by greedy Mormons, flew planes in the nude and wore
Kleenex boxes on his feet. What’s not to like? The American Dream gone mad"
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ball-fire

[15]The 14 Most Dominant Performances
Links:
15. http://b.rw/mSK0T0

Joe Posnanski | Sports Illustrated | 24 June 2011

In sport, that is. A great list to chew over. So many good memories. And a
fabulous, in some ways unexpected, choice as number one. "He is moving like
a tremendous machine," said the awestruck commentator [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/14-most-dominant-performances

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Van Jones on Change in America
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/van-jones-on-change-america

In the latest instalment of our series on American progressivism, the
environmental advocate and human rights activist tells us why the age of
Obama will really only begin after the president has left office [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/van-jones-on-change-america

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