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Interviews with authors, academics and public figures who recommend the best five books in their field. Support us: fivebooks.com/support-us/
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NEW interview: Marking the 75th anniversary of liberation, Mary Fulbrook, @ucl historian and winner of the @WolfsonHistory prize, recommends essential reading for understanding the crimes against humanity that occurred at Auschwitz and its aftermath. fivebooks.com/best-books/aus…
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“How will we solve anything, in the world of people, if all we can do is point, sneer and ostracise?” fivebooks.com/best-books/imm…
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“Somebody complained Picasso’s picture of Gertrude Stein didn’t look like her, the response was ‘It will’.”
Philosopher Noël Carroll chooses the best books on the philosophical questions posed by art. fivebooks.com/best-books/noe…
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NEW interview: Marking the 75th anniversary of liberation, Mary Fulbrook, @ucl historian and winner of the @WolfsonHistory prize, recommends essential reading for understanding the crimes against humanity that occurred at Auschwitz and its aftermath. fivebooks.com/best-books/aus…
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Aha! Here's a fun one. What book would you never want to see recommended on Five Books? Must be one that you've actually read and hated. Reasons why encouraged.
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"Google you can also think of as a form of mass collaboration – there is a kind of underlying wisdom of crowds that gives us all information." fivebooks.com/best-books/tyl…
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"In fact, just thinking happy thoughts is quite dangerous a lot of the time."
Professor Elaine Fox, one of the world’s leading experimental psychologists, picks the five best books on optimism. fivebooks.com/best-books/ela…
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“It’s been suggested that Gertrude Stein might have been stoned when she wrote Tender Buttons”, @jntod says. Happy birthday to Stein, born #OTD in 1874 fivebooks.com/best-books/pro…
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From a brave account by the Stanford rape case survivor Chanel Miller to New Yorker reporter Ronan Farrow's gripping tale of investigating the Harvey Weinstein scandal, it's been a golden year for autobiography fivebooks.com/best-books/aut…
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The best books on the history of science, a #readinglist by scientist and historian Matthew Cobb (@matthewcobb) fivebooks.com/best-books/his…
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It’s America’s favourite sport—at its best, a wonderful, thrilling spectacle; at its worst, legitimised violence exacting a terrible price on players. The Chicago Sun-Times sportswriter @ricktelander takes us inside the dark heart of American football. fivebooks.com/best-books/ric…
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“I often say when I’m teaching logic, ‘Don’t use this at home or you’ll end up unhappily single.’” fivebooks.com/best-books/log…
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When I consider the darkness of American football, I immediately think of Frederick Exley's novel "A Fan's Notes." More about the scary side of masculinity in the U.S. than the sport itself, it's a harrowing reading experience. twitter.com/five_books/sta…
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“In football, beauty, violence and sex are mixed. The game is beautiful to watch in replay—there is violence in every play and then they cut to half-naked dancing girls shaking pom-poms. It’s a uniquely American television spectacle.” #SuperBowlnaESPN fivebooks.com/best-books/ric…
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“What’s interesting about the claustrophobia [in Ferrante's Days of Abandonment] is that it’s a claustrophobia of disintegration. It’s like being in someone’s mind while that mind is totally falling to pieces.” fivebooks.com/best-books/ele…
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The best books on American football and its dark side #SuperBowl2020 fivebooks.com/best-books/ric…
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'If you go to Palermo and say, “I’m researching the Mafia,” they laugh a lot. First of all they laugh a lot, and then they kill you.' The best books on The Sicilian Mafia, a #readinglist by @NDMOxford Professor Diego Gambetta: fivebooks.com/best-books/bes…
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The samurai, Japan's warrior caste, have been embraced by popular culture and made their way into films, comic books and video games. But who were they really? fivebooks.com/best-books/sam…
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“The term ‘strategy’ dates from the Greco-Roman period but then it doesn’t come back into vogue until the 18th century or so” Uncovering the fascinating history of military strategy: fivebooks.com/best-books/mil…
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