Newsletter 772
[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]His Grief, And Ours
Links:
6. http://b.rw/T7J7wU
Leon Wieseltier | New Republic | 24 August 2012
Against Paul Ryan, a "morally insolvent", mendacious, mean-spirited,
narrow-minded man led astray by Ayn Rand. "The ideal of self-reliance
in America has always been attended by a corollary of indifference to
others, of nastiness" [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/his-grief-and-ours
[8]Riddled With Irregularity
Links:
8. http://b.rw/OyBq32
Philip Ball | Prospect | 22 August 2012
"Recent scientific studies propose that language 'universals' aren’t
simply prescribed by genes but arise from the interaction between the
biology of human perception and the bustle, exchange and negotiation of
human culture" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/riddled-irregularity
[10]David Foster Wallace On The Brink of 'Infinite Jest'
Links:
10. http://b.rw/NmGuVq
DT Max | Daily Beast | 19 August 2012
Portrait of a troubled genius. “I am a pathetic and very confused young
man, a failed writer at 28, who is so jealous, so sickly searingly
envious of any young man producing pages that I consider suicide a
reasonable option" [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/david-foster-wallace-brink-infinite-jest
[12]Are You A Hero Or A Bystander?
Links:
12. http://b.rw/Od2iXV
Sue Shellenbarger | WSJ | 21 August 2012
What makes one person risk their life to save another from an impending
train crash? Or to catch a baby falling from a building? Psychologists
believe that specific character traits reveal a propensity for bravery
[13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/are-you-hero-or-bystander
[14]The Lancashire Witches 1612-2012
Links:
14. http://b.rw/OWjDjQ
Robert Poole | Public Domain Review | 22 August 2012
Revisiting Pendle witch trials of 1612. It all began when John Law had
a stroke, while arguing with a young lady. He later accused her of
being a witch. The evidence of two children led to arrest of 19 others.
And a mass execution [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/lancashire-witches-1612-2012
[16]Lunch With The FT: Ian McEwan
Links:
16. http://b.rw/T7NkRm
Caroline Daniel | FT | 24 August 2012
Amusing, touching, surprisingly intimate conversation digging deep into
novelist's childhood and youth. Parents gave his brother away for
adoption. Arrived in London as a literary mouse. “How did I become a
lion? By roaring!" [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/lunch-ft-ian-mcewan
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Dominic Lawson on Chess
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/dominic-lawson-on-chess
You don’t have to be a genius to play chess, but it helps. The
journalist tells us about the logical beauty of the game, its history
and political context, and the lives and minds of its greatest masters
[19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/dominic-lawson-on-chess
Featured Special Report
[20]Putin's Russia
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/putins-russia
A disputed election, protests, accusations of being a mafia state. As
Vladimir Putin takes back the presidency, what kind of country does he
lead? [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/putins-russia
Reader Recommendations
[22]rszbt Take Ethiopia: MT @[23]owenbarder: Worth reading: "Our image
of Africa is hopelessly obsolete" by @[24]ianbirrell
[25]t.co/aAPLksFZ" #[26]browsings [27]More like this
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24. http://twitter.com/ianbirrell
25. http://t.co/aAPLksFZ
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/galveston-by-nic-pizzolatto
[29]Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/galveston-by-nic-pizzolatto
[30]Attica Locke says: “It’s a great piece of fiction, and a lot of the
action takes place on the eve of Hurricane Ike, which devastated
Galveston in 2008”[31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/attica-locke-on-texas
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Trotsky's Assassination
Links:
32. https://thebrowser.com/videos/trotskys-assassination
Remembered by his grandson, Esteban Volkov, 86 [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Wendell Berry, on marriage
Links:
34. http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/columns/alan-jacobs/the-online-state-of-nature
Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and
impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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