Anne Hathaway's Magical "Night"
Daniel Menaker was an editor at The New Yorker for 20 years before joining Random House, where he was editor-in-chief from 2003 to 2007. He has won two O. Henry Awards, is the author of two collections of stories and a novel, The Treatment, and is working on a book about conversation, A Good Talk.
The actress is divine in Shakespeare in the Park's production of Twelfth Night, writes Daniel Menaker-if only there hadn't been so many freakin' distractions.
The Week In Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, we lost two icons and gained a museum, the Oscars dropped a bombshell, and a Jonas brother testified in D.C. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best in TV, art, music, and film.
My Address—and Apology—to Yale
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
Class Day speaker and Daily Beast columnist Christopher Buckley wishes Yale graduates every success as they enter that never-ending graduate school called life-and offers up a long overdue mea culpa for dropping an F-bomb during his own graduation.
What Would Shakespeare Say?
Liz Goodwin is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast. She has written for the New York Sun, GothamSchools, the Tico Times, and Fodor's Travel Guides.
At a loss for words? Then do what Monica Lewinsky and Shaquille O'Neal have, and borrow from the best. With occasion-ready quotations from Bardisms, you'll never be speechless again.
Earthy Beauty
Peter Eyre is a veteran actor whose 50-year career spans film, television, and the theatre. His stage credits include Richard II, Hamlet, King Lear, Hedda Gabler, Crime and Punishment, The Seagull, and Terre Haute.
British actor Peter Eyre, who knew Natasha Richardson since she was a child, recalls the qualities that made her so special. Read it and view photos from the actress' life.
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 weekly look at great reads from around the world by the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. This week: The Shakespeare fake, a social-climbing gossip straight out of Evelyn Waugh, and John Rawls' newly discovered faith.
I'm reading a lot of Chekhov's short stories because I'm in The Cherry Orchard right now. The short stories are so unspeakably beautiful. The fun of doing a new play is that you get to be with the playwright and help him create it, and I...
Ethan Hawke is an actor, director, screenwriter and novelist. His film credits include Dead Poets Society, Hamlet, and Training Day. He has also appeared in numerous theatre productions, including The Seagull, Henry IV, and currently, The Cherry Orchard. Hawke is co-chairman of the Young Lions Committee at the New York Public Library.
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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