Newsletter 597
[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]The Wrath Of Putin
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5. http://b.rw/ypr8tM
Masha Gessen | Vanity Fair | 2 March 2012
Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the richest man in Russia when he dared
confront then president Vladimir Putin. He was convicted in two
Kafka-esque trials and remains in prison. This terrific piece charts
the two men's clash [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/wrath-putin
[7]The Power Of Habit
Links:
7. http://b.rw/zjNtyf
Charles Duhigg | Slate | 28 February 2012
Fascinating history of toothpaste (!) and American advertising
executive Claude C Hopkins. A man who unwittingly discovered the three
essentials of how to make people form habits: The cue, the routine and
the reward [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/power-habit
[9]Europe Invents The Gypsies
Links:
9. http://b.rw/zSkeRd
Klaus-Michael Bogdal | Eurozine | 24 February 2012
"Might not the history of the Roma, a group marginalised like none
other, reveal a less auspicious aspect of Europe's grand narrative of
modernity?" Good question to kick off this historical analysis of
European attitudes to gypsies [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/europe-invents-gypsies
[11]The End Of Labour?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/yQwlqb
Colin Kidd | London Review Of Books | 29 February 2012
The Scottish question. In different ways, puts both Labour and
Conservatives in a difficult position. Tories must handle referendum
and possible break-up of UK. But Labour faces longer term threat of
exclusion from power [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/end-labour
[13]On The Market
Links:
13. http://b.rw/yZ5Gnf
Alice Gregory | n+1 | 1 March 2012
Notes from a year spent working as a junior at Sotheby's in New York.
"Paintings with red in them usually sell for more than paintings
without red in them. Warhol’s women are worth more, on average, than
Warhol’s men" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/market
[15]Great Catherine's Many Dimensions
Links:
15. http://b.rw/wkDRPm
Richard Wortman | National Interest | 28 February 2012
Fine essay reviewing Robert Massie book on Catherine the Great. "Her
unremitting sexual appetites became a way to acquire intelligent and
energetic devotees upon whom she could rely in the snake pit of the
Russian court" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/great-catherines-many-dimensions
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Martin Bell on Reportage and War
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/martin-bell-on-reportage-and-war
The former BBC war reporter picks out essential reading on the Bosnia
and Vietnam wars and explains why a book of poetry speaks more to him
about the reality of conflict than any other writing [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/martin-bell-on-reportage-and-war
Featured Special Report
[19]How To Die
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/how-die
How to face the end? Peacefully? Still fighting? With all of medicine's
help? Or naturally? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/how-die
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k RT @baselinescene: House Republicans: Making the United States
More Like Greece, #whburningpreview [21]t.co/uKdpvMcV #gfc2
[22]#browsings [23]More like this
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23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/grapes-wrath-by-john-steinbeck
[25]The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/grapes-wrath-by-john-steinbeck
[26]Jonathan Evison says: “It’s an amazingly powerful story of people
trying to reinvent themselves in an environment that was stacked very
much against them” [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jonathan-evison-on-american-west
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]2012 Hyundai Azera: Modern Life
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/2012-hyundai-azera-modern-life
Yes, wasn't that a nice commercial. But can you name the director?
[29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]EF Schumacher, on progress
Links:
30. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk9sKUiB2_M
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes genius to move in the opposite direction"
[31]More quotes
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31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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