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Geoff Dyer on Unusual Histories
Geoff Dyer is known for his hard-to-classify books of nonfiction ('Out of Sheer Rage,' 'Zona') so it’s only appropriate that for his FiveBooks...
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The Fireplace Delusion
Why do we still have fires despite their obvious harm to our health and the environment?...
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The Infamous One Percenters
From Ebenezer Scrooge to Arthur Jensen in Network, here are some of the most famouns one percent characters from books and movies....
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The Elusive General
A new book on Gen. David Petraeus tries to understand what drives America’s most famous officer.
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Tina Brown Interviews Robert Harris
The author of 'The Fear Index' talks about the new thriller, geniuses, and getting stiffed with the bill at dinner.
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American Dreams
In the first installment of American Dreams, Nathaniel Rich finds in the 1902 novel "Brewster’s Millions"—the amusing story of man who has to blow $1...
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How Paterno’s Legacy Unraveled
In an excerpt from his new book, ‘Death Comes to Happy Valley,’ Jonathan Mahler examines the tragedy of Joe Paterno and Penn State.
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A Book of ‘White Girl Problems’
The anonymous Twitter feed shot to fame with pithy musings like “I hate my horse.” Now it becomes a book.
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What Franzen Calls Bad for Society
From e-books to bad Broadway musical adaptations.
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3 Must-Reads
A China where time disappears, unsettling South Korean stories, and a French master of filth...
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Cairo
Ahdaf Soueif pens a love letter to Egypt’s capital after years of silence.
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Time to Lift the Ban on ‘Mein Kampf’
Still refusing to allow Hitler’s book to be published, Bavarian authorities may do more harm than...
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Out There
From Gore Vidal to Tony Kushner, a new book traces the history of American gay writers as they...
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The Last Holiday
Gil Scott-Heron’s death in May 2011 reminded us that hip-hop, a commerce machine today, once found at its center a devotion to righting social wrongs through the force of simple words.
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The Last Nude
A dashing, brash painter begins an affair with her beautifully innocent model in 1927 Paris.
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Joseph Roth
The poet Michael Hofmann has compiled and translated the letters of Joseph Roth, and they heap into a dense, dark portrait of a remarkable life.
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The World We Found
The author of the hit novel ‘The Space Between Us’ gives us something like ‘The Big Chill’ for 40-something Indian Americans.
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Perlmann’s Silence
Mercier this time paints a portrait of a man covering his tracks as he gets increasing mired in academic games and psychological purgatory—they’re pretty much the same thing.
Taiye Selasi's Unique Connection With Readers
Taiye Selasi, a young Ghanian writer talks to the Daily Beast from the Jaipur Festival about the challenges of the young African novelist and the unique connection she sees between the Indian readers & African literature.
