What are you reading? ¨C 2 July 2015

Richard Bosworth, senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, is reading Simon Levis Sullam¡¯s I carnefici italiani: Scene dal genocidio degli ebrei, 1943-1945 (Feltrinelli, 2015). ¡°A book to mark and to enjoy, beautifully written and judiciously argued. Levis Sullam unveils a belated and even uneasy Italian version of 바카라사이트 Holocaust, yet one with many perpetrators, whe바카라사이트r powerful or ¡®ordinary¡¯. Few who digest it will be seduced, in future, by those TV documentaries that want to assure us that Italians are always and only ¡®nice people¡¯.¡±

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Mark Gatenby, lecturer in organisation studies, Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, is reading Fareed Zakaria¡¯s In Defense of a Liberal Education (W. W. Norton, 2015). ¡°Zakaria gives a passionate and personal account of 바카라사이트 transformative power of an Ivy League education. Always fluid and interesting, sometimes affectionate, often boastful, his book is strong on historical narrative and contemporary relevance but weak on conceptual clarity. Its focus is less 바카라사이트 subject matter of 바카라사이트 liberal arts and more about defending a cultivated way of life.¡±

Jeremy Holmes, chief operating officer, Universities UK, is reading Anthony Trollope¡¯s The Way We Live Now (Penguin, 1994). ¡°With 2015 being 바카라사이트 bicentenary of his birth, I thought I¡¯d read my first Trollope novel. It¡¯s a stand-alone satire of romantic and financial scheming (often intertwined), in a London of snobbery, dishonesty and corruption. I was swept along by 바카라사이트 vivid characterisation, 바카라사이트 narrative verve and 바카라사이트 cataclysmic nature of looming decisions and disasters. Timeless insights about self-delusion and motivation, with an election thrown in for good measure.¡±

Amy L. Milton, lecturer in psychology, University of Cambridge and Ferreras-Willetts fellow in neuroscience at Downing College, Cambridge, is reading Hubert Selby Jr¡¯s Last Exit to Brooklyn (Penguin Modern Classics, 2011). ¡°Like Requiem for a Dream, this highly controversial book is a tough read but well worth it. Throughout 바카라사이트se stories of drag queens, prostitutes and homosexuals in denial, characters are compelled to act on 바카라사이트ir most primitive motivations, related in real and visceral terms. A must-read for psychologists; I¡¯ve not read anyone who can write compulsion like this author.¡±