Newsletter 598
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]F Scott Fitzgerald's Essays From The Edge
Links:
5. http://b.rw/wtH9Q0
Patricia Hampl | American Scholar | 1 March 2012
Intriguing suggestion that Fitzgerald's The Crack-Up sets the tone for
the modern American autobiographical essay, which "tell[s] a story and
then think[s] about it — all in the same work" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/f-scott-fitzgeralds-essays-edge
[7]Netanyahu And Obama Play High-Stakes Poker Over Iran
Links:
7. http://b.rw/yNxU2o
Aluf Benn | Haaretz | 2 March 2012
Haaretz says Israeli PM's planned trip to Washington is the most
fateful of his career. He arrives in a position of strength, but his
relationship with Obama is famously poor and his strategy towards Iran
entails great risks [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/netanyahu-and-obama-play-high-stakes-poker-over-iran
[9]A Common Faith
Links:
9. http://b.rw/A1f3ht
Marilynne Robinson | Guernica | 1 March 2012
On human nature and the good society. "Our civilisation has recently
chosen to identify itself with a wildly oversimple model of human
nature and behaviour, and then is stymied or infuriated by evidence
that the models don't fit" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/common-faith
[11]The Body Counter
Links:
11. http://b.rw/zo26ZR
Tina Rosenberg | Foreign Policy | 1 March 2012
Profile of Patrick Ball, pioneering American statistician who has
systematised what was previously an anecdotal process of making death
counts for atrocities and civil wars. "His methods have changed our
understanding of war" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/body-counter
[13]Work, Not Sex, At Last
Links:
13. http://b.rw/xeNXr2
Elaine Blair | NYRB | 17 February 2012
Extremely intelligent overview of Michel Houellebecq's career to date,
with special attention to his newest novel, The Map and the Territory.
Key line: "We are not all shut-ins, but we are all afraid of being
unloved" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/work-not-sex-last
[15]Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway
Links:
15. http://b.rw/xU17Id
Robert Krulwich | NPR | 29 February 2012
Gigantic bugs called "tree lobsters" lived on an island near Australia.
Until rats killed them off in 1918. But wait: Scientists have found a
few still living on the next island. If you like stick insects, you'll
love this story [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/six-legged-giant-finds-secret-hideaway
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]Epic Adventures
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Extreme tourism, unwise adventure and plain bad luck. Enjoy it all from
the comfort of your armchair [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k RT @EconBizFin: A brief guide to electoral fraud for the busy
despot [21]t.co/MatWGBJl #gfc2 [22]#browsings [23]More like this
Links:
21. http://t.co/MatWGBJl
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/day-locust-by-nathanael-west
[25]The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/day-locust-by-nathanael-west
[26]Jonathan Evison says: “The quintessential LA novel, about the film
industry in its heyday. It’s hilarious and macabre, and it’s so modern
in its tone and cadence” [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]This Is The Economy
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/economy
A new Herman Cain advertisement. The question is, for what? [29]More
videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Martin Wolf, on governance
Links:
30. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/56f88be0-6213-11e1-807f-00144feabdc0.html
"Slavery and feudalism are extractive economic institutions.
Law-governed market economies are inclusive economic institutions"
[31]More quotes
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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