Amanda Knox: ‘I Was Determined to Help Myself’

Apr 22, 2013 3:05 PM EDT

In a new memoir, she describes the night of Meredith Kercher’s murder, her reaction, her time in... MORE

This Week’s Hot Reads

by Mythili Rao Apr 22, 2013 2:38 PM EDT

This week, from the songbirds of rural Indiana to the forgotten gothic literature of Russia. MORE

Bristol, Bridge to the Wide World

by Sara Wheeler Apr 22, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

Travel writer Sara Wheeler, famous for her stories of polar expeditions, returns home to her city:... MORE

Turning to Tolstoy

by Liesl Schillinger Apr 22, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

As the Boston manhunt blared from TVs, critic Liesl Schillinger found herself turning to Tolstoy’s... MORE

Maps of the Heart of Manhattan

by Allison McNearney Apr 22, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

In ‘Mapping Manhattan,’ explore the city via 75 New Yorkers’ personal geographies.... MORE

Russia Is Dying

by Peter Pomerantsev Apr 22, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

Peter Pomerantsev on Oliver Bullough’s bleak mix of biography and reportage that looks inside the... MORE

Gaddafi Is Dead. Long Live Art.

by Hisham Matar Apr 22, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

In Libya, behold a cultural revolution.... MORE

The Chechen Grievance

by Benjamin Lytal Apr 21, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

Benjamin Lytal checks in on Tolstoy’s tale of anti-heroism and betrayal, ‘Hadji Murad.’ MORE

The Last Days of the Americans

by William Dalrymple Apr 21, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

William Dalrymple traces the ill-fated retreat of the 1842 British army from Afghanistan, and finds... MORE

The Week’s Best Reads

by David Sessions Apr 20, 2013 3:07 PM EDT

The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week. By David Sessions. MORE

Can You Raise a Wife?

by Mythili Rao Apr 19, 2013 11:12 AM EDT

An 18th-century philosopher adopted a 12-year-old and tried to raise her—as his wife.... MORE

Losing My Religion

by Philip F. Gura Apr 18, 2013 2:47 PM EDT

The American novel was once inseparable from proselytizing. How did it become anticlerical?... MORE