The Week’s Best Reads

by David Sessions Apr 27, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

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

Something about Mary

by Mary Beth Keane Apr 27, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

Who was Typhoid Mary? Was she a villain or a victim?... MORE

A Gripe With Behavioral Economics

by Jesse Singal Apr 26, 2013 4:45 PM EDT

Nobel-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman explains his problem with people using the term... MORE

DeLillo Wins Inaugural Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction

Apr 25, 2013 9:01 PM EDT

Will speak at National Book Festival ceremony in September. MORE

Our Anne Boleyn Obsession

by Lauren Elkin Apr 25, 2013 5:30 PM EDT

She haunts us still, through Hilary Mantel’s novels to a Showtime series. But why?... MORE

Why Forgeries Are Great Art

by Jonathon Keats Apr 25, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

Is contemporary art too insular? Jonathon Keats says we should give forgeries a chance. MORE

Never Before Seen Beatles Snaps

by Leslie Woodhead Apr 24, 2013 4:39 PM EDT

Filmmaker Leslie Woodhead recently uncovered photos he took of the Fab Four in 1964.... MORE

Larry McMurtry: How I Write

by Noah Charney Apr 24, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

‘Lonesome Dove,’ ‘Terms of Endearment,’ ‘The Last Picture Show’—which of the films based on his... MORE

Madbeth

by Liesl Schillinger Apr 23, 2013 5:33 PM EDT

What will he do next, Liesl Schillinger thought, as she watched Alan Cumming play almost every role... MORE

Fred Kaplan: The Task of the Biographer

Apr 23, 2013 4:09 PM EDT

The biographer of Gore Vidal, Henry James, and Charles Dickens, among others, records the shape of... MORE

The Terms of Terror

by William Giraldi Apr 23, 2013 3:30 PM EDT

Evil, senseless, silver linings—these are the words we tossed around last week.... MORE

World Book Night Gives Out Half a Million Books

Apr 23, 2013 2:59 PM EDT

Along with dozens of events nationwide. MORE