The World's Brainiest Call Girl
Olivia Cole writes for the Spectator and the London Evening Standard. An award-winning poet, her first collection, Restricted View, will be published this fall.
This week a research scientist was unmasked as blogger Belle de Jour, inspiration for Showtime's Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Olivia Cole on a sex scandal's surprisingly happy ending.
This Week's Hot Reads
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
This week: a gripping novel of suburban life gone wrong, a whimsical Sicilian murder mystery, a humorous guide to surviving corporate America, an ode to letter writing, and a Harvard professor who explores the meaning of justice.
'Tricky Dick' vs. the Pink Lady
Sally Denton is a writer based in Santa Fe and author of six books, including The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America and the forthcoming The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas (Bloomsbury Press).
Nixon's victory over Helen Gahagan Douglas was one of the nastiest in history, and a prototype for today's GOP smear tactics. In an exclusive excerpt from The Pink Lady, Sally Denton revisits the infamous Senate campaign.
The Best of Brit Lit
Peter Stothard is editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He was editor of The Times of London from 1992-2002. He is the author of Thirty Days, a Downing Street diary of his time with British Prime Minister Tony Blair during the Iraq war and On the Spartacus Road: A Spectacular Journey Through Ancient Italy will be published in January.
A look at great reads from the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. This week: the harrowing true story of discovering the Northwest Passage, the British art of political sketches, and myth and fairytales in British history.
This Week's Hot Reads
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
This week: A journalist digs into the shocking story of the mob hit on his accountant father, Mary Karr's memoir about her alcoholism and Catholicism, a great fiction saga of Manhattan over four centuries, Paul Auster's newest and highly praised novel, and a deep look at the world of Google.
This Week's Hot Reads
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
This week: A hipster recounts his wild misadventures, a deep look at how and why we shop, a rollicking tale of spies and dilettantes in the American Revolution, an indictment of our economic theories, and a bold new novel of artistic corruption and redemption.
This Week's Hot Reads
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
This week: a haunting novel about a house that sees the tides of history, a new memoir-novel from Jeannette Walls, a powerful eyewitness account of the surge in Iraq, a new thriller from David Baldacci, and a manifesto for dealing with email.
Ghostbusters Is Real!
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
Seriously. Just ask Dan Aykroyd and his father, Peter, whose real-life family history with the supernatural inspired Ghostbusters. The two talk to Benjamin Sarlin about the science behind the paranormal.
America's Dark Side
Chris Lehmann is co-editor of Book Forum and a columnist for TheAwl.com.
Mark Danner's new book, Stripping Bare the Body, is damning in its assessment of American foreign policy failures in Haiti, Bosnia, and now Iraq, says Chris Lehmann.
Speed Read: Too Big to Fail
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
The Daily Beast presents the five most revealing and cinema-ready scenes from New York Times wunderkind Andrew Ross Sorkin's new book on the financial crisis.
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.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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