Yum
One ingredient at a time, Edward Behr will change the way you eat for the better, but you have to be willing to sit up, take notes, and take your food seriously. Are you ready?
Lucas Wittmann is the former books editor at The Daily Beast.
Out of the Ruins
How did we get from 1945 to here? Ian Buruma talks about his new history of the year World War Two ended.
Summer’s End
From Norman Rush’s new novel, 10 years in the making, to the best releases of early November, here are 21 must-reads.
Longreads
The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week. By Lucas Wittmann.
Top Picks
Newsweek/Daily Beast books editor Lucas Wittmann on Salman Rushdie’s memoir and other books that wowed him this year.
’TIS THE SEASON
From what to get your bratty cousin to the perfect gift for Dad, herewith our ultimate gift guide of 15 astonishing, weird, and beautiful books.
Beach Books
From a debut about a wedding off Cape Cod to a biography of Julia Child, Jimmy So and Lucas Wittmann pick the best of the tropical season.
Novelist and wine poet Jay McInerney joins us on camera to taste wine, talk about what hipsters drink, and why Raymond Carver was not a sherry man. His new book on wine, The Juice, is out now.
Trips
From HHhH, a Holocaust novel about the impossibility of writing a Holocaust novel, to a memoir without a trace of self-aggrandizement by priest and politician Bob Massie.
India’s Tehelka Think Festival kicked off today, covering nanotechnology to satire. By Lucas Wittmann.