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.
The Daily Beast Turns One
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.
As The Daily Beast marks its first anniversary, co-founder and editor-in-chief Tina Brown talks about the year's surprises, obsessive commenters, print's premature obit, Sarah Palin, Sexy Beast ... and what's next for the site.
The Daily Beast Honored with ONA Award
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.
A year after it first launched, The Daily Beast is the winner of a major award from the Online News Association in the category of Online Commentary.
Should Online Content Be Paid For?
In her new Web series, @KatieCouric, Katie Couric talks content-and whether the public will pay for it-with The Daily Beast's co-founders, Tina Brown and Barry Diller. Watch the full interview here.
The Yes List
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.
Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, 'Mad Men Yourself' in the style of your favorite show.
North Korea has tested a nuke. Iran is developing an atomic program of its own. And violence in Iraq is ticking upward. The Axis of Evil lives! The Daily Beast looks at the growing threat from these three countries and suggests a few new recruits with which the Axis could fill out its ranks.
How Stars Slim Down
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.
Kirstie Alley recently admitted to Oprah that she gained 83 pounds after dropping her Jenny Craig sponsorship. VIEW OUR GALLERY of stars whose diets proved far more successful.
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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