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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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Obama’s Green Years
Thanks to an upcoming biography, juicy details of the future president’s pot-smoking preferences are causing a stir.
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The Vicious Homefront
'A Time To Be Born' doesn’t have a single gun, yet Dawn Powell’s novel captures the madness of World War II. By Nathaniel Rich.
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Bright Lights, Big Glass
Novelist Jay McInerney joins us on camera to taste wine, talk about what hipsters drink, and why Raymond Carver was not a sherry man.
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Best Presidential Campaign Posters
From Carter as Jesus to Ford as Fonzie, a new Library of Congress book presents the narrative of politics as told through pictures.
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Bestselling Book Series of All Time
The ‘Fifty Shades’ trilogy just topped 10 million copies sold in the U.S....
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Writer, Journalist, God
Some fans create a whole religion around their hero, as in the case of The Will Self Club....
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Juiciest Bits from William's Bio
From doubts about marrying Kate to Diana's self-harming, Tom Sykes speed reads 'The Man Who Would...
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America's Public Library Crisis
A battle is raging over a plan to renovate the iconic New York Public Library....
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Healing Words
The prolific author Terry Tempest Williams turns every interview into a conversation, as Susan...
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HHhH
A brilliantly profound debut about the assassination of the architect of the Holocaust, a subject of such enormity that it utterly resists fictionalizing. But Binet is not making things up.
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A Song in the Night
Fighter against apartheid and former Massachusetts Senate candidate (until Elizabeth Warren entered the race) Bob Massie has lived nine American lives, and he tells them in a memoir.
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Istanbul Passage
A gripping and intelligent espionage thriller set in neutral Istanbul in 1945, when an American spy has to guide a Romanian defector to safety in an uncertain world.
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Emmaus
A novel of budding sexual desires where four boys vie for a beautiful girl in an industrial post-war Italy, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
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Patriot of Persia
In 1953, the U.S. and Britain staged a coup against Muhammad Mossadegh, then the premier of Iran, who flirted with communism and nationalized the oil industry. But the West would deeply regret this.
The Biggest Mistake of the Radical Right
Can America’s love for individualism and community peacefully coexist? Newsweek & The Daily Beast’s John Avlon sits down with E.J. Dionne, author of ‘Our Divided Political Heart,’ to discuss how radical individualism invaded the Republican party.
