Newsletter 524
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus FiveBooks
interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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[5]Christopher Hitchens: 'The Consummate Writer, The Brilliant Friend'
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5. http://b.rw/t9Puef
Ian McEwan | Guardian | 16 December 2011
Wonderful, touching piece from McEwan remembering last weeks of his great
friend. A writer, to the last: "His head would droop, his eyes close, then
with superhuman effort he would drag himself awake to type another line"
[6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/christopher-hitchens-consummate-writer-brilliant-friend
[7]How National Identities Are Really Formed
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7. http://b.rw/tEzH9l
Hussein Ibish | Ibishblog | 14 December 2011
Spiky, enjoyable analysis that takes as its starting point Newt Gingrich's
recent remarks about Palestinians being "an invented people". They're no
more or less "invented" than any other modern national identity [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-national-identities-are-really-formed
[9]Sing Of The New Invasion
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9. http://b.rw/v6O2Ct
Slavoj Zizek | New Statesman | 12 December 2011
"Fiennes's Coriolanus is like the eyes of God or a saint in an Orthodox
icon: Without changing a word in Shakespeare's play, the film looks squarely
at our predicament today, offering us the figure of the radical freedom
fighter" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sing-new-invasion
[11]A Death Of One's Own
Links:
11. http://b.rw/vH068H
Peter Singer | Project Syndicate | 16 December 2011
"In the US, you can buy a gun and put a bullet through your brain without
breaking any laws." But if you ask your doctor to shoot you, or to kill you
by some other means, you are party to a crime. What sense does that make?
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/death-ones-own
[13]If You Can’t Notice A Gorilla In Plain Sight, How Can You Testify As A
Witness?
Links:
13. http://b.rw/vhT3ES
Daniel Simons | The Crux | 14 December 2011
Interesting post on limits of our perception, awareness. As notorious
"gorilla test" shows, we are far less likely to notice unexpected events
than we presume. Which could have severe consequences, when it comes to
matters of law [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/if-you-can’t-notice-gorilla-plain-sight-how-can-you-testify-witness
[15]Hitch
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15. http://b.rw/sT9QAr
Jane Mayer | New Yorker | 16 December 2011
Brief but brilliant. A fabulous vignette. The scene: An exclusive, allegedly
anti-Semitic country club in Palm Beach. Christopher Hitchens is shown to a
table in the middle of the dining room... [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/hitch
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Lev Grossman on Fantasy
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lev-grossman-on-fantasy
We're living through a golden age for fantasy fiction, says the author of
_The Magicians_. He tells us what makes for a good fantasy novel, and who's
staking out the future not just of fantasy but of fiction itself [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lev-grossman-on-fantasy
Featured Special Report
[19]Christopher Hitchens
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19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/christopher-hitchens-0
Remembering the superlative essayist, polemicist and debater [20]Read on
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/christopher-hitchens-0
Reader Recommendations
@[21]farnamstreet How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders And
how the Pentagon later turned on them [22]t.co/bNCgQchA
#[23]longreads #[24]browsings [25]More like this
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25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/end-revolution-by-wang-hui
[27]The End of the Revolution by Wang Hui
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/end-revolution-by-wang-hui
[28]Rana Mitter says: “To get something of the pulse of thinking in modern
China a century after the 1911 revolution, Wang Hui is a good starting
point” [29]FiveBooks Archive
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28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rana-mitter-on-100-years-modern-china
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Box Like A Boss
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/box-boss
How to pack your Christmas presents. A tutorial [31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]John Gray, on history
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32. http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2011/12/money-debt-paper-world-coggan
"History is a solvent of illusions"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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