Newsletter 746
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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1. http://thebrowser.com
[6]Corruption And Nepotism Haunt Southern Europe
Links:
6. http://b.rw/MPzyFU
Hans-Jürgen Schlamp | Spiegel | 30 July 2012
Sicily is bust. But don't expect action from the regional assembly. It
rarely meets. Most members don't show up when it does. They do,
however, draw salaries of €10-15,000 a month. All 90 of them. And their
400 assistants [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/corruption-and-nepotism-haunt-southern-europe
[8]The Olympics And The Muslims
Links:
8. http://b.rw/MOBmPx
Juan Cole | Informed Comment | 27 July 2012
"Athletes are envisioned as representing their nation, and the
abstraction, that everyone now has a nation-state, covers up a lot of
cultural conflict that besets the Games." Here's a look at some
tensions that do (and don't) arise [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/olympics-and-muslims
[10]Art Over Biology
Links:
10. http://b.rw/MW5ODv
Adam Kirsch | New Republic | 12 July 2012
Scientists have struggled since Darwin to reconcile art with evolution.
How does art help survival? Some categorise it as a form of sexual
display for attracting mates. But its main function may be in prompting
us to think [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/art-over-biology
[12]Austerity vs. Growth
Links:
12. http://b.rw/OD2jDG
Milton Ezrati | National Interest | 30 July 2012
Much thinking about Europe's economic difficulties presents the
alternatives as a binary choice between growth or budget discipline.
But could there be a third way? Ezrati explains how such an approach
could work [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/austerity-vs-growth
[14]The Mystery Of Charles Dickens
Links:
14. http://b.rw/OsOBoy
Joyce Carol Oates | NYRB | 26 July 2012
Claire Tomalin's new biography of Charles Dickens reviewed. "If
Dickens’s prose fiction has 'defects' — excesses of melodrama,
sentimentality, contrived plots, and manufactured happy endings — these
are the defects of his era" [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mystery-charles-dickens
[16]Get A Job: The Craigslist Experiment
Links:
16. http://b.rw/N7cQ6U
Eric Auld | Thought Catalog | 23 July 2012
Eric Auld is 26, with a Master's degree in English. Looking for a
full-time job in a major US city. And getting nowhere fast. So he puts
a fake job ad on Craigslist to get a sense of the competition out there
(h/t Daniel Lippman) [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/get-job-craigslist-experiment
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Will Self on Influences
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-self-on-influences
Conventional prose fiction falls short of the mark, says the English
author, who tells us about his modernist novel Umbrella, what the real
character of London is, and why he can’t stand the Olympics [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-self-on-influences
Featured Special Report
[20]Globalisation
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/globalisation
A collection of thought-provoking articles and interviews on the
challenges of globalisation [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/globalisation
Reader Recommendations
[22]polit2k MT @[23]AnnPettifor: Fine piece from @[24]mauerback: ECB
chief recognizes that ECB has a banking run on their hand.
[25]t.co/6ZEAJOVz [26]#browsings [27]More like this
Links:
22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://twitter.com/AnnPettifor
24. http://twitter.com/mauerback
25. http://www.economonitor.com/blog/2012/07/whatever-it-takes-how-far-is-the-ecb-really-prepared-to-go-to-save-the-euro
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/wodehouse-wodehouse-by-pg-wodehouse
[29]Wodehouse on Wodehouse by PG Wodehouse
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/wodehouse-wodehouse-by-pg-wodehouse
[30]Sophie Ratcliffe says: “It contains his autobiography, in which he
describes his Victorian childhood. He used to visit grand houses but
was incredibly shy” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sophie-ratcliffe-on-pg-wodehouse
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]2001: A Space Odyssey (2012 Trailer Recut)
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/2001-space-odyssey-2012-trailer-recut
How would they market Kubrick's classic, if it were released today?
[33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Vladimir Nabokov, on originality
Links:
34. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4310/the-art-of-fiction-no-40-vladimir-nabokov#.T9EHpODaAIo.twitter
"Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others.
Originality has only its self to copy"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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