This Week's Hot Reads
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This week: A new novel about Manhattan prep-schoolers by one of their own, a Tudor tragedy reconsidered, the essential primer to Central Asia, a shocking exposé of food waste, and the latest Harry Bosch detective thrill.
A Wicked L.A. Noir
David J. Montgomery is a critic for The Daily Beast and has written about authors and books for many of the country's largest newspapers.
Richard Lange's first book set the bar so high that his sophomore effort had almost no chance of living up to the hype-except that it does, an L.A. Confidential for the 21st century.
5 Hot Summer Thrillers
David J. Montgomery is a critic for The Daily Beast and has written about authors and books for many of the country's largest newspapers.
Depraved serial killers, hard-bitten cops, sleuthing journalists, and femme fatales-read our roundup of the can't-put-down thrillers that will keep you on the beach well past sunset.
A 'Torch Song' for Newspapers
Michael Connelly, as a former crime reporter for the L.A. Times, says he's naturally upset by the crumbling newspaper industry (a topic featured in his latest novel "The Scarecrow"), but as with e...
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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