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The Week’s Best Reads
The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week. MORE
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Let Us Now Praise James Agee
The discovery of the article that turned into ‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Men’ helps us see a strange... MORE
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Married to the War
Underrated and underread British novelist Olivia Manning didn’t know she would be devoting her life... MORE
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Hefty Lit
Obese characters used to be there for comic relief, but as our waistlines expand, fiction writers... MORE
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Janet Malcolm ... Artist?
Will Janet Malcolm prove to be the most fascinating artist to have been profiled by the great Janet... MORE
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A.M. Homes Wins Women’s Prize for Fiction
‘May We Be Forgiven’ describes the life of Harry, a middle-aged Richard Nixon–studies professor. MORE
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‘War Never Stopped Chasing Us’
A carpet seller tells the story of his family’s odyssey through Afghanistan.... MORE
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How Do We Read?
William Giraldi on how critic Terry Eagleton escaped his Marxism long enough to write a book about... MORE
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George R.R. Martin Loves ‘GoT’ Shocker
Writer won’t apologize for his brutal scene. MORE
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Judy Blume Comes to the Big Screen
She’s a staple of American adolescence, but there hasn't been a big-screen adaptation of one of... MORE
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The SEALs’ Warrior Princess
Anne Speckhard tells Lloyd Grove about the book she wrote with ex-SEAL Kristin Beck, formerly Chris.... MORE
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Interpretation of Dreams
A psychoanalyst distilled 50,000 hours of therapy into a book—Lucy Scholes says its details are... MORE
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