Newsletter 657
[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]Leaving Wall Street
Links:
5. http://b.rw/IoOFmS
Alexis Goldstein | n+1 | 30 April 2012
Everyone who joins an investment bank plans to make a fortune, get out,
and do something else. They rarely succeed. "The culture of Wall Street
is pervasive and contagious. Before I occupied Wall Street, Wall Street
occupied me" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/leaving-wall-street
[7]The Legendary Paul Ryan
Links:
7. http://b.rw/IOOgJ2
Jonathan Chait | New York | 29 April 2012
On the chairman of House Budget Committee, designer of Republican
budget. Rose seemingly without trace. All but unchallengeable by
Romney, other senior Republicans. Democrats are having a job too. But
his plan is not moderate [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/legendary-paul-ryan
[9]Against Chairs
Links:
9. http://b.rw/Kq8Uf5
Colin McSwiggen | Jacobin | 23 April 2012
"Chairs suck. All of them. No designer has ever made a good chair,
because it is impossible. Some are better than others, but all are
bad." They damage our bodies. And rose to popularity for worst of
reasons - status, power, control [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/against-chairs
[11]Beholden
Links:
11. http://b.rw/KDSDbj
Rebecca Solnit | Guernica | 30 April 2012
Broad discussion with Occupy movement's intellectual figurehead David
Graeber. From Islamic origins of free market ideology to virtues of
anarchism. "I think we need to think of capitalism as a very bad way of
organizing communism" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/beholden
[13]The Call Of The Future
Links:
13. http://b.rw/KoLlmR
Tom Vanderbilt | Wilson Quarterly | 30 April 2012
What can the history of the telephone teach us about effects of
technology on society? To find out Vanderbilt takes us back to a time
when the “talking telegraph” was a novelty, and all telephone receivers
had "trumpets" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/call-future
[15]Uncatchable
Links:
15. http://b.rw/K3xxEg
Michael Finkel | GQ | 1 May 2012
Robber, con artist, plane hijacker, escaped prisoner, domestic
terrorist. George Wright is all of the above. He spent 41 years on the
run. Until police trapped him in Portugal. But there was still time for
one last great escape [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/uncatchable
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Ahmede Hussain on South Asian literature
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ahmede-hussain-on-south-asian-literature
The acclaimed author recommends the most exciting new writing out of
India and South Asia, from a Pakistani perspective of 9/11 to an
emigré's return to an unfamiliar Bangladesh [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ahmede-hussain-on-south-asian-literature
Featured Special Report
[19]Air Travel
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/air-travel
Airlines opened to us a world of thrilling possibility. But, for many,
flying is still a terrifying prospect. Crashes, though rare, do happen.
And then there are the security procedures bequeathed to us by 9/11
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/air-travel
Reader Recommendations
[21]AmandaGiracca “But what about the man on the other side of your
gun?" asks @[22]SimoneGorrindo :[23]t.co/HJf4NK5l [24]#browsings
[25]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/AmandaGiracca
22. http://twitter.com/SimoneGorrindo
23. http://velamag.com/there-are-no-goodbyes-in-the-army
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/aspects-wagner-by-brian-magee
[27]Aspects of Wagner by Brian Magee
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/aspects-wagner-by-brian-magee
[28]Ed Smith says: What Brian Magee has done brilliantly is to write a
book that explains how we make sense of this person who has influenced
so many intellectuals and so many creative talents [29]FiveBooks
Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ed-smith-on-my-life-and-luck
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Window Seat to North Korea
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/window-seat-north-korea
Pyongyang through the window of a bus
[31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Charles Simic, on art
Links:
32. http://nyrbclassics.tumblr.com/post/22124272297
"Every art is about the longing of One for the Other. Orphans that
we are, we make our sibling kin out of everything we find"
[33]More quotes
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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