Newsletter 382

[5]The Maid's Tale
Links:
5. http://b.rw/nWBUvM

Christopher Dickey & John Solomon | Newsweek | 25 July 2011

"She glanced around the living room for luggage, saw none. 'Hello?
Housekeeping.' Then a naked man with white hair suddenly appeared, as if out
of nowhere." The head of the IMF no less. Allegedly. Here is the maid's
account in full [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/maids-tale

[7]Hell On Utøya
Links:
7. http://b.rw/plb0c1

Prableen Kaur | Midget Viking | 23 July 2011

Eyewitness account of shootings in Norway from vice chairwoman of Oslo youth
party. "I saw blood. Fear. I decided to get up. I had been lying on top of a
dead body. Two dead bodies were on top of me. I had guardian angels"
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/hell-utøya

[9]How The Internet Created An Age Of Rage
Links:
9. http://b.rw/rthaVU

Tim Adams | Observer | 24 July 2011

Excellent essay on the bile and hatred generated by online comment threads.
At issue? Anonymity and what psychologists term deindividuation. "It's what
happens when social norms are withdrawn because identities are concealed"
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-internet-created-age-rage

[11]America's Drunkest Writer
Links:
11. http://b.rw/nMntc2

Jimmy So | Daily Beast | 16 July 2011

Stiff competition in this department. But the winner is: F. Scott
Fitzgerald, to judge from a new collection of his writings, on drink. Didn't
even succeed in capitalising on drunken persona. Just crumbled into
oblivion, and died [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/americas-drunkest-writer

[13]Hack Work
Links:
13. http://b.rw/r5zYpM

Anthony Lane | New Yorker | 25 July 2011

On Rupert Murdoch, Piers Morgan, Kelvin MacKenzie, privacy, power, and
British society. "It was Murdoch's genius, and also the cause of his current
woes, to bring the revelry to a head and give the people what they asked
for" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/hack-work

[15]Spirit Is Willing, And So Is The Flesh
Links:
15. http://b.rw/p3LiNg

Carlin Romano | Chronicle Reivew | 20 July 2011

Review of essay-collection, "The Philosophy of Viagra". Does it make people
happier? How would the ancients have reacted? Diogenes would have taken it.
Probably Aristotle too, out of curiosity. But not Socrates. Nor the Stoics
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/spirit-willing-and-so-flesh

FiveBooks Interview

[17]John Morrill on Oliver Cromwell
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-morrill-on-oliver-cromwell

The professor of history at Cambridge asks why Oliver Cromwell remains
Britain’s most controversial ruler, and what the morbid story of Cromwell’s
head after his death has to say about British history [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-morrill-on-oliver-cromwell