Welcome to The Beast Book Club
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.
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 13 Hottest Summer Reads
Sara Nelson is a critic for The Daily Beast and the former editor in chief of Publishers Weekly. She is the author of the bestselling So Many Books, So Little Time.
Sara Nelson picks the summer's beach-reading musts, including a long-awaited Pat Conroy novel, the tale of Facebook's creators and a celebrity drunkalog with juicy anecdotes about not sleeping with Frank Sinatra.
The Little Movie That Could
Aravind Adiga is the bestselling author of The White Tiger, which won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
A few months ago, Ramin Bahrani was the best director you'd never heard of. Then, writes Daily Beast columnist Aravind Adiga, he made Goodbye, Solo and the world caught on.
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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