Newsletter 568
[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]We're All In The Same Boat
Links:
5. http://b.rw/wixqKl
Adam Curtis | BBC | 31 January 2012
Social history of the cruise ship industry, from the 1960s to the wreck
of the Costa Concordia. Ships as "giant floating theatrical bubbles" in
which ordinary people could behave for a while as though they were
upper class [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/were-all-same-boat
[7]Facebook, Wall Street: Friends With Benefits
Links:
7. http://b.rw/z18VKY
Brad Stone | Businessweek | 2 February 2012
"By friending Wall Street at the start of its journey to the public
markets, Facebook is giving its users something unpleasant to think
about: Their personal information is helping to make rich people even
richer" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/facebook-wall-street-friends-benefits
[9]The Most Terrible Polar Exploration Ever
Links:
9. http://b.rw/yFKuQN
Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 27 January 2012
Utterly gripping account of Douglas Mawson's 1912-13 Antarctic
expedition. Unimaginable hardship in the cause of science. Mawson's
hair fell out, skin peeled off. He survived only by bathing his eyes in
cocaine and eating his dogs [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/most-terrible-polar-exploration-ever
[11]Sino-Americana
Links:
11. http://b.rw/AdzkHB
Perry Anderson | London Review Of Books | 1 February 2012
Judiciously snarky review of books on China by Ezra Vogel, Henry
Kissinger, Jay Taylor: "Works that appear to be about China, or some
figure or topic from China, but whose real frame of reference,
determining the optic, is the US" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sino-americana
[13]David Cronenberg
Links:
13. http://b.rw/xr7cFJ
Jonathan Penner | LA Review Of Books | 28 January 2012
Interview. "If you mix your blood with other people’s, then you will
create something that you wouldn’t have done on your own, but is enough
of you that it’s exciting and feels like you. It’s kind of like making
children" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cronenberg
[15]To My Old Master
Links:
15. http://b.rw/wuK7qX
Jourdan Anderson | Letters Of Note | 30 January 2012
US colonel writes to former slave, requesting he return to work. Former
slave replies, in some style. Signs off with: "Say howdy to George
Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were
shooting at me" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/my-old-master
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Edmund White on Gay Fiction
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edmund-white-on-gay-fiction
The author, critic and creative writing professor tells us about the
battle to establish gay fiction, and recommends five novels where
beautiful writing and gay themes come together [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edmund-white-on-gay-fiction
Featured Special Report
[19]Consciousness
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/consciousness
What is it? Where did it come from? How can we learn more about it?
Here's a quick look at what we do and don't know about consciousness
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/consciousness
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k RT @pierrebri: Progress on letting big banks fail - Simon
Johnson: t.co/HFonPQCi #toobigtof #gfc2 #browsings @rszbt @sysparatem
[21]More like this
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21. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[22]Book of the Day
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/kill-mockingbird-by-harper-lee
[23]To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/kill-mockingbird-by-harper-lee
[24]Clive Stafford Smith says: “Atticus Finch is a great hero. The book
touches on so many issues and deals with so many prejudices. It’s a
book that was way ahead of its time” [25]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/clive-stafford-smith-on-capital-punishment
25. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[26]Game Change Trailer
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/videos/game-change-trailer
Is there any way of getting Meryl Streep's Thatcher and Julianne
Moore's Palin into the same movie? [27]More videos
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[28]Jerry Leath Mills, on southernness
Links:
28. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/southern_cultures/v006/6.4mills.html
"There is a simple litmus-like test for the quality of southernness
in literature. Is there a dead mule in it?"
[29]More quotes
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29. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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