Booker Winners Through the Years
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Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall won the Man Booker Prize today. The Daily Beast looks back at the past decade of honorees, from Yann Martel's Life of Pi to Aravind Adiga's White Tiger.
The Yes List
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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, "the next great American director" creates a bond between two unlikely men in Goodbye, Solo.
Nora Ephron's Must-Reads
Nora Ephron is a journalist, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director. Her credits include Heartburn, When Harry Met Sally, and Sleepless in Seattle. She received three Oscar nominations for screenwriting. Her books include Crazy Salad, Scribble, Scribble and Heartburn. Her latest book, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, was a number one best seller. Her latest film is Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.
The director of Julie & Julia recommends a few of her favorite books.
Aravind Adiga Responds to Our Readers
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The author of The White Tiger and Between the Assassinations answers Daily Beast readers' questions about his books, life in India, and why he'll never adapt one of his works for the screen.
Critical Praise for Between the Assassinations
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Aravind Adiga's first book, The White Tiger, received glowing reviews, and now many critics are saying his new collection is even better. Here are a few recent evaluations.
Welcome to The Beast Book Club
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The first selection in our new book club is Between the Assassinations by acclaimed author Aravind Adiga. Submit a question for the author to answer-our 40 favorites will receive a free book.
An Excerpt from Between the Assassinations
Aravind Adiga is the bestselling author of The White Tiger, which won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
Before he wrote The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga wrote Between the Assassinations, a collection of short stories about life in the fictional city of Kittur. Read an excerpt from one of the stories.
My Wild Trip Home
Aravind Adiga is the bestselling author of The White Tiger, which won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
An essay from the author of Between the Assassinations on how he traveled from Brooklyn back to his hometown of Mangalore, and discovered an India he never knew existed.
The 13 Hottest Summer Reads
Sara Nelson is a critic for The Daily Beast and the former editor in chief of Publishers Weekly. She is the author of the bestselling So Many Books, So Little Time.
Sara Nelson picks the summer's beach-reading musts, including a long-awaited Pat Conroy novel, the tale of Facebook's creators and a celebrity drunkalog with juicy anecdotes about not sleeping with Frank Sinatra.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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