Freestyle Fatherhood
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
Taylor Antrim speaks with Simon Carr about his moving memoir, The Boys Are Back, and how he improvised raising his two sons after his wife died.
I really like some of Matt Taibbi's articles on the financial meltdown and Michael Lewis', too. I thought David Brooks had a good column recently in The New York Times. Brooks was talking about how he was listening to an NPR radio show c...
Academy Award winner Matt Damon has starred in films such as Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote with Ben Affleck, The Good Shepherd, The Bourne and Oceans film series and the upcoming The Informant. He is also involved with a number of charities including the ONE Campaign, H20 Africa Foundation and Water.org.
Are the Glory Days of Fatherhood Over?
Author Michael Lewis is currently a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, a columnist for Bloomberg, and a visiting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. His new book, Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, comes out next month.
Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and Liar's Poker, says in his new book, Home Game, that the modern nuclear family has become a Moroccan souk, where every chore can be haggled over.
A Tale of Male Surrender
Michael Lewis' brutally honest new book about fatherhood, says Simon Carr, is also a study in gender roles-and a bit of a triumph.
How Bad Parenting Became Cool
Margaret Carlson is a columnist for Bloomberg News. She was a columnist and deputy Washington bureau chief for Time magazine.
In the new books about childrearing, it's OK to be negligent and inept as long as you admit it with charm-and aren't on Welfare.
12 Hot Father's Day Books
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Attention, shoppers: Put down the golf gear, step away from the neckties. From an epic retelling of WWII to P.J. O'Rourke's ode to the American automobile, here are 12 books dad will actually read.
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.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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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