Newsletter 728
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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[6]The Country That Is The World: Syria's Clashing Communities
Links:
6. http://b.rw/LUh3eq
Charles Glass | World Affairs Journal | 12 July 2012
Charles Glass is usually worth a look on Lebanon/Syria. This short
essay about tolerance, sectarianism and revolt will tell you more about
Syria than the next 20 news reports you'll read about killings and
ceasefires [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/country-world-syrias-clashing-communities
[8]Let's Make A Deal
Links:
8. http://b.rw/MkV3ca
Robert Jenkins | Bank Of England | 10 July 2012
Superbly accessible and enjoyable speech on bank regulation. And it's
not often you'll hear those words together. But here's a central bank
official speaking in a private capacity and nailing a few home truths
(PDF) [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lets-make-deal
[10]The Machine And The Garden
Links:
10. http://b.rw/OzArNH
Eric Liu & Nick Hanauer | IHT | 10 July 2012
We talk of economies as though they were machines, using language that
fits with market fundamentalists' view of the world. But recent history
shows economies aren't linear and predictable. It's better to think of
them as gardens [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/machine-and-garden-0
[12]Autumn Of The Patriarch, Forgetting To Live
Links:
12. http://b.rw/N3qVqa
Aaron Bady | New Inquiry | 9 July 2012
Monumental essay in praise of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred
Years Of Solitude. "You are supposed to forget. You are supposed to get
confused. The last thing you are ever supposed to do is keep everything
straight" [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/autumn-patriarch-forgetting-live
[14]Whiff-Whaff
Links:
14. http://b.rw/NtFK3Q
Howard Jacobson | New Republic | 12 July 2012
Will Boris Johnson be Britain's next prime minister? Maybe. He appears
a buffoon, but he's a calculating buffoon, letting his tousled hair
work its charm on television. His "amused and vivacious nihilism" finds
an echo with voters [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/whiff-whaff
[16]What Is The Probability That You Are Dreaming Right Now?
Links:
16. http://b.rw/LNSIvv
Jan Westerhoff | OUP Blog | 13 July 2012
"Most people think that even though it is possible that they are
dreaming right now, the probability of this is very small, perhaps as
small as winning the lottery. In fact the probability is quite high.
Let's do the maths" [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-probability-you-are-dreaming-right-now
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Bernard Bailyn on Atlantic History
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bernard-bailyn-on-atlantic-history
The Harvard professor and Pulitzer prize-winning historian recommends
reading on three centuries of empire, conflict and slave trading
between the Americas, Europe and Africa [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bernard-bailyn-on-atlantic-history
Featured Special Report
[20]Private Equity: For And Against
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/private-equity-and-against
In the spotlight because of economic crisis, and Mitt Romney [21]Read
on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/private-equity-and-against
Reader Recommendations
@David73277 'From PhD to BBC': are academic historians too hungry for
fame? Asks @earlymodernjohn [22]t.co/5UYsYTvS #history #HE
[23]#browsings [24]More like this
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22. http://t.co/5UYsYTvS
23. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/andy-warhol-diaries-by-andy-warhol
[26]The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/andy-warhol-diaries-by-andy-warhol
[27]Craig Brown says: “They give a feel for the freneticism of New York
at that time, in the late 1970s to late 1980s. It’s the raunchy
pre-AIDS time” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/craig-brown-on-diaries-and-autobiography
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Howlin Wolf: Evil
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/howlin-wolf-evil
Something just ain't right [30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Jean Cocteau, on critics
Links:
31. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2757/the-art-of-fiction-no-93-john-irving
"Listen very carefully to the first criticisms of your work. Note
just what it is about your work that the reviewers don’t like; it
may be the only thing in your work that is original and worthwhile"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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