Newsletter 594
[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]I Was A Warehouse Wage Slave
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5. http://b.rw/zSgOBM
Mac McClelland | Mother Jones | 27 February 2012
Portrait of the American workplace in all its horror. Intrepid reporter
goes to work in warehouse owned by, or servicing, unnamed online retail
giant. Impossible targets; negligible pay; if you don't like it, you're
fired [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/i-was-warehouse-wage-slave
[7]Africa’s Dirty Wars
Links:
7. http://b.rw/yi4VPM
Jeffrey Gettleman | NYRB | 27 February 2012
Why so many small wars in Africa? Because barriers to insurrection have
fallen very low. No more colonial powers or superpowers to intervene.
Anyone with a satphone can get publicity. If you need troops, just drug
some children [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/africa’s-dirty-wars
[9]Where American Criminal Justice Went Wrong
Links:
9. http://b.rw/z1jWqc
Leon Neyfakh | Boston | 26 February 2012
On the importance of “The Collapse of American Criminal Justice” by
William Stuntz, which reveals "how justice is administered by
prosecutors who have every incentive to threaten defendants with the
harshest possible sentence" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/where-american-criminal-justice-went-wrong
[11]Night Moves
Links:
11. http://b.rw/xJeH2E
Christine Baumgarthuber | New Inquiry | 23 February 2012
"Terrible and lonely are those hours during which I fret and worry and
stare at the ceiling. I certainly don't look forward to them. But there
was a time when late-night wakefulness wasn't something to be dreaded
but welcomed" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/night-moves
[13]The Big Reveal
Links:
13. http://b.rw/xkWFlv
Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 27 February 2012
On the Bible's last book. "Revelation, far from being meant as a
hallucinatory prophecy, is actually a coded account of events happening
at the time of writing. It’s really a political cartoon about the
crisis in the Jesus movement" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/big-reveal
[15]Which Is The Best Language To Learn?
Links:
15. http://b.rw/yqkYaz
Robert Lane Greene | Intelligent Life | 24 February 2012
Assuming you already speak English. Mandarin jumps out as an obvious
choice, but complexity of its written form suggests it would be the
wrong candidate. Spanish? Arabic? Both are contenders. But Greene
plumps for French. Here's why [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/which-best-language-learn
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Jonathan Evison on The American West
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jonathan-evison-on-american-west
The acclaimed novelist, and resident of Washington state, recommends
fiction that captures a sense of the rugged landscape and people of the
American West [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jonathan-evison-on-american-west
Featured Special Report
[19]Time
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/time
What is it? Why isn't it the same everywhere? Can we travel through
time? Will there be an end to time? Read on to find out [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/time
Reader Recommendations
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#[26]syria[27]More like this
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25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#syria
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/don-quixote-by-cervantes-translated-samuel-putnam
[29]Don Quixote by Cervantes (translated by Samuel Putnam)
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/don-quixote-by-cervantes-translated-samuel-putnam
[30]Edith Grossman says: “When I was young I thought Don Quixote was
the greatest tragedy I had ever read. But as I get older I find it
funnier and funnier” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edith-grossman-on-translation
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]The City of Samba
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/city-samba
Tell me you don't want to go to Rio after seeing this
[33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Daniel Davies on debt
Links:
34. http://crookedtimber.org/2012/02/25/too-big-to-fail-the-first-5000-years
"In the commercial world, the ability to put yourself in debt is a
privilege, not an obligation"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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