America's Pop Culture Savant
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
Taylor Antrim on why Chuck Klosterman's latest book, Eating the Dinosaur, shows him as pop-culture obsessed as always and wonders if his shtick still works.
Quick Reads for the Asylum
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
Following his psycho-thriller debut with a collection of stories about extreme anxiety and paranoia, James Lasdun may single-handedly save British short fiction from an untimely demise.
A Vile Love Triangle
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
In Nick Laird's sharp new novel, Glover's Mistake, not one of the main characters would make good dinner company. But he presents a vision of human envy and contempt that's hard to shake.
Plenty of Time 'Til Doomsday
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
Ron Currie, Jr.'s rambunctious new Everything Matters! is a winning entry in a new genre: the pre-apocalyptic novel.
The Great New York Novel
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
With echoes of Wolfe, Doctorow, and DeLillo, Colum McCann's mesmerizing Let the Great World Spin is a prophetic portrait of New York City in the summer of 1974.
Cancer, Cocktails, and Sexual Lust
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
A knowing story of impending death set at an opulent New England hotel, Emily Chenoweth's debut, Hello Goodbye, is an autobiographical novel that shakes up the terminal-illness genre like a dry martini.
My Italian Love Affair
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
Binnie Kirshenbaum's witty, insightful European road novel turns the midlife-crisis-romance genre on its head.
Four Overlooked Books of 2009
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
Taylor Antrim picks the best fiction ignored by The New York Times-can't-put-down books about sex and baseball, class bias, lust on the farm, and drug-addicted misfits.
Red Meat for Revolutionaries
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
An Egyptian writer called for a "collective revolution" on the final day of the PEN World Voices Festival, arguing that even in the West, people are "imprisoned by individualism."
What the World Is Reading
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
Novelist Taylor Antrim finds the PEN World Voices Festival an engaging mix of literary superstars like Salman Rushdie and lesser-known talent, who bring their native languages alive.
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.
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.
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.
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