Stoker Family Values
Matthew Shaer writes regularly about books for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and Bookforum, among other publications.
A slasher-flick screenwriter and Bram Stoker's great-grand nephew have written the first "official" Dracula novel since the 1897 original. Matthew Shaer on the pair resurrecting the Count.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, a hearty helping of Meryl Streep, nerds love G.I. Joe, Woodstock flashbacks, Paula's swan song, and more. VIEW OUR GALLERY for the best in TV, music, movies, and art.
After what seems like the longest promotional campaign of the summer, Julie & Julia finally hits theaters this weekend. For the most part, the crit...
I know it's sold in the "tween" section and written for kids, but Stephenie Meyer's Twilight is one of the sweetest love stories I've read in a while. So far, it's been the best escape from this arctic blast that I've come across....
Nicolle Wallace served as a senior adviser to the McCain-Palin campaign from May to November 2008. She served President George W. Bush as an assistant to the president and director of communications for the White House, as well as communications director for President Bush's 2004 campaign.
Virgin Vampires
Leslie S. Klinger is an authority on those twin icons of the Victorian era, Sherlock Holmes and Dracula. His latest work, The New Annotated Dracula, was published by W.W. Norton.
Best-selling vampire expert Les Klinger on why the chaste teens in Twilight are a far cry from the hedonistic blood-suckers of the past.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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