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Saturday, March 3, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [3 Mar 2012]

3 March 2012

 Best of the Moment

F Scott Fitzgerald's Essays From The Edge

Patricia Hampl | American Scholar | 1 March 2012

Intriguing suggestion that Fitzgerald's The Crack-Up sets the tone for the modern American autobiographical essay, which "tell[s] a story and then think[s] about it — all in the same work" Comments

Netanyahu And Obama Play High-Stakes Poker Over Iran

Aluf Benn | Haaretz | 2 March 2012

Haaretz says Israeli PM's planned trip to Washington is the most fateful of his career. He arrives in a position of strength, but his relationship with Obama is famously poor and his strategy towards Iran entails great risks Comments

A Common Faith

Marilynne Robinson | Guernica | 1 March 2012

On human nature and the good society. "Our civilisation has recently chosen to identify itself with a wildly oversimple model of human nature and behaviour, and then is stymied or infuriated by evidence that the models don't fit" Comments

The Body Counter

Tina Rosenberg | Foreign Policy | 1 March 2012

Profile of Patrick Ball, pioneering American statistician who has systematised what was previously an anecdotal process of making death counts for atrocities and civil wars. "His methods have changed our understanding of war" Comments

Work, Not Sex, At Last

Elaine Blair | NYRB | 17 February 2012

Extremely intelligent overview of Michel Houellebecq's career to date, with special attention to his newest novel, The Map and the Territory. Key line: "We are not all shut-ins, but we are all afraid of being unloved" Comments

Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway

Robert Krulwich | NPR | 29 February 2012

Gigantic bugs called "tree lobsters" lived on an island near Australia. Until rats killed them off in 1918. But wait: Scientists have found a few still living on the next island. If you like stick insects, you'll love this story Comments

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