Newsletter 612
[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]How One Man Escaped From A North Korean Prison Camp
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5. http://b.rw/zXR09I
Blaine Harden | Guardian | 16 March 2012
Shin In Geun is probably the only person to have been born in, and
escape from, a North Korean camp for political prisoners. His account
of the cruelty and viciousness of life inside Camp 14 is harrowing
almost beyond belief [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-one-man-escaped-north-korean-prison-camp
[7]The Tune Of The Future
Links:
7. http://b.rw/FO4z96
Slavenka Drakulic | Eurozine | 15 March 2012
Travelling from Venice to Lampedusa prompts reflections on changing
nature of Italian society, how migration is re-shaping old Europe and
challenging it both politically and culturally. Interesting throughout
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tune-future
[9]Out Of Contact
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9. http://b.rw/FQSmdu
John Terborgh | NYRB | 15 March 2012
"One starry evening, after we had both had a few beers, an Amazonian
acquaintance of mine loosened up and recounted to me the life he had
led as a child before his extended family established contact with the
outside world" [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/out-contact
[11]Too Smart To Fail
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11. http://b.rw/yf4Uda
Thomas Frank | MIT Press Journals/Baffler | 16 March 2012
America suffers three big self-inflicted wounds in barely a decade:
"New Economy" bubble, war in Iraq, banking crash. Yet nobody gets held
to account, nobody gets shamed. Neither among the principals, nor the
pundits (PDF) [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/too-smart-fail
[13]The Danish Doctor Of Dread
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13. http://b.rw/xVbdpo
Gordon Marino | NYT | 17 March 2012
Revisiting Kierkegaard's writings on anxiety. Not a man who would have
sided with our current propensity to treat with medication. Indeed he
said that "whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has
learned the ultimate" [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/danish-doctor-dread
[15]Roth v Roth v Roth
Links:
15. http://b.rw/Ae1K5K
Joseph O'Neill | Atlantic | 14 March 2012
Netherland author on the shape-shifting novelist. He is his brilliantly
self-diagnosing and self-disputing writer-narrators, the invented
character Philip Roth, Roth the author of fiction, Roth the (pseudo)
memoirist and more [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/roth-v-roth-v-roth
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Andy Borowitz on Comic Writing
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andy-borowitz-on-comic-writing
Do you have to be cruel to be comedic? It often helps, says the
bestselling humour writer, who tells us about five novels (and one
presidential contender) that are enough to make anyone laugh [18]Read
on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andy-borowitz-on-comic-writing
Featured Special Report
[19]Parenting
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/parenting
What's the best way to bring up children? Indeed, is there a right way
at all? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/parenting
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k London, the most grotesque city in the world: haunt of
Bashar, Boris and Ken | Marina Hyde [22]t.co/zkVjQcsG via
@[23]guardian #[24]browsings
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://t.co/zkVjQcsG
23. http://twitter.com/guardian
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#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/east-eden-by-john-steinbeck
[27]East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/east-eden-by-john-steinbeck
[28]Tim Lott says: “The main brother narrative within the story is that
of Adam and Charles Trask. It’s constantly referring back to the Cain
and Abel story” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-lott-on-brothers
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]The Road We've Travelled
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/road-weve-travelled
Pull up a chair. Break out a handkerchief. The president wants to tug
your heartstrings [31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]John Kay, on obfuscation
Links:
32. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/71832f72-2e45-11e0-8733-00144feabdc0.html
"When someone tells you something is too complex for you to
understand, the usual reason is that they do not really understand
it themselves"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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