Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince raked in $22 million at its midnight opening, laughing in the face of former record holder The Dark Knight. Critics weigh in on the good, the bad, and the Muggly.
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.
The Best New Historical Fiction
C.W. Gortner’s novel The Last Queen (Ballantine Books) was a Marin Independent Journal bestseller and is currently being translated into eight languages. His next novel, The Confessions of Catherine de Medici will be published in 2010. He holds a MFA in Writing with an emphasis on Renaissance Studies and is a regular contributor to the Historical Novels Review. Visit him here or at his blog.
A female pope, a Japanese sleuth, stolen treasure, and a deal with the Devil-six sparkling new works of historical fiction that will replace your nixed trip to Bermuda with some time travel.
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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