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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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Library of Congress
The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth
Were her curves too much for Ruth and Gehrig? Adam Doster follows the trail of an amazing story.
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Andrew Kelly/Reuters, via Corbis
Happy End of the World
A new book explores the history of mass extinctions and how the human species can survive the next one. But Nick Romeo asks: will we survive?
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Stuart Campbell/AP
Cracking the Knossos Code
It took scholars 52 years to decipher Linear B, a language written on tablets found at the mysterious Knossos labyrinth. By Malcolm Jones.
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Roger Cremers/Hollandse Hoogte, Redux
My Year Of Not Looking In A Mirror
Kjerstin Gruys decided to shun her reflection and focus on inner beauty for a whole year—which happened to be the one in which she got married.
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Rene Burri/Magnum
The Man With the Bomb
Why Robert Oppenheimer haunts us still.
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What a Strange Sjón
Three Summer reads come out of Iceland.
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Big Idea: Our Global Cost
How do we measure and predict the human cost of climate change? By Andrew T. Guzman.
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Guardians of the Lost Art
Robert Edsel tells the story of the scholar-soldiers tasked with rescuing Italy’s treasures from...
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A Post-9/11 Werewolf Novel?
Many books have taken up the war on terror, but Roxane Gay reads a novel that deals with the...
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Boston Feels the Pain
Paul Theroux looks at his hometown after the marathon bombing and finds the mood of the city...
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On Sal Mal Lane
War threatens to shatter the innocence of children in Sri Lanka.
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The Watch Tower
A portrait of domestic cruelty follows the fates of two sisters in 1940s Australia.
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Fools
Interconnected stories of faithfulness and foolishness across continents and generations.
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A Dual Inheritance
Two men, products of different genetic and cultural legacies, meet in 1962 Harvard.
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Steal the Menu
A former New York Times editor reminisces about the glamour days of food reviewing.
T.J. English on Whitey Bulger
The author of Whitey’s Payback: and Other Stories on what you need to know about the downfall of the notorious Boston gangster. From Open Road Media.
Highlights
Cheat Sheet
Books
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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
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Repeat the Past
Luhrmann Wants Leo for ‘Hamlet’
Tells The Hollywood Reporter it's "just a dream."More
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Courtroom Drama
Harper Lee Sues Agent
For rights to 'Mockingbird'More
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Everyman
Philip Roth Honored at PEN Gala
Receives Literary Service Award for helping persecuted writers.More
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American Master
DeLillo Wins Inaugural Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
Will speak at National Book Festival ceremony in September.More
