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The Week’s Best Reads
The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week. By David Sessions.
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Saving Italy’s Art
How did Renaissance masterpieces survive the carnage of World War II? Noah Charney on America’s art historian war heroes.
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We’re Partway There
Fifty years after ‘The Feminine Mystique,’ how close are women to living Friedan’s dream? By Eleanor Clift.
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Happy Short Story Month!
May is Short Story Month. Here are Jane Ciabattari’s favorite new collections, from an ironic new voice to a posthumous release.
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Your Beach Book Bag
Twelve must-reads for your summer vacation.
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Tolkien’s Unfinished Epic
Laid aside for decades, Tolkien’s abandoned poem about King Arthur is finally released. Biographer John Garth reads the epic.
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An Unforgiving America
Writer George Packer mostly succeeds in describing the dissolution of our civic culture, says...
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Lawrence Wright: How I Write
The ‘Going Clear’ author talks about the latest threats from the Church of Scientology and the wild...
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The Pointless Great War
Was World War I a necessary fight against German militarism, or was it completely avoidable?...
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Animal Planet
Why do we use enormous resources to save some species and let others die?...
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Khaled Hosseini’s Book Bag
The author of ‘The Kite Runner’ picks his favorite short-story collections....
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Americanah
A woman struggles to assimilate in Nigeria after living in the U.S. for 13 years.
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Angel Baby
A crime novel that follows the exodus of a woman from Mexico to Los Angeles.
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She Left Me the Gun
A grieving daughter travels to South Africa to investigate her mother’s life before her.
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A Short Tale of Shame
A chance encounter on the road helps four people to realize they have more in common than a shared acquaintance.
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Brilliant Blunders
Even geniuses make mistakes in science—except some blunders turn out to be correct.
Michael Chabon, Rose Styron on Jewish Heritage Month
Writers Bel Kaufman, Michael Chabon, Mary Glickman, and others reflect on their roots. From Open Road Media.
Highlights
Cheat Sheet
Books
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THE PRICE IS RIGHT
Penguin Settles E-Books Suit
Will pay $75 million to consumers.More
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LOST AND FOUND
Pearl Buck Novel Recovered
“The Eternal Wonder” will be published in October.More
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Storyteller
Lydia Davis Wins Man Booker International Prize
Following past winners Ismail Kadaré, Chinua Achebe, Alice Munro, and Philip Roth.More
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Suicide in France
Historian Kills Himself at Notre Dame
After anti–gay marriage rant.More
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Like a Rolling Stone
Dylan Inducted Into Arts Academy
As Michael Chabon delivers keynote address.More
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CHRISTIAN GREY TRANSLATES
‘50 Shades’: Contraband Hit in China
Pirated copies are sneaking in. More
