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The Week’s Best Reads
The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week. By David Sessions.
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Obama’s Green Years
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Thanks to an upcoming biography, juicy details of the future president’s pot-smoking preferences...
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The Vicious Homefront
'A Time To Be Born' doesn’t have a single gun, yet Dawn Powell’s novel captures the madness of...
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Bright Lights, Big Glass
Novelist Jay McInerney joins us on camera to taste wine, talk about what hipsters drink, and why Raymond Carver was not a sherry man. MORE
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Best Presidential Campaign Posters
From Carter as Jesus to Ford as Fonzie, a new Library of Congress book presents the narrative of politics as told through pictures. MORE
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Writer, Journalist, God
Some fans create a whole religion around their hero, as in the case of The Will Self Club. Henry Krempels reports. MORE
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The Biggest Mistake of the Radical Right
Can America’s love for individualism and community peacefully coexist? Newsweek & The Daily Beast’s John Avlon sits down with E.J.... MORE
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Juiciest Bits from William's Bio
From doubts about marrying Kate to Diana's self-harming, Tom Sykes speed reads 'The Man Who Would Be King.' MORE
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Bestselling Book Series of All Time
The ‘Fifty Shades’ trilogy just topped 10 million copies sold in the U.S. See how it compares with the most popular book series ever. MORE
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America's Public Library Crisis
A battle is raging over a plan to renovate the iconic New York Public Library. Author Jon Reiner says the café-like transformation is nationwide. MORE
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Healing Words
The prolific author Terry Tempest Williams turns every interview into a conversation, as Susan Salter Reynolds discovers. MORE
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How to Make Philosophy Fun
Professor and critic Carlin Romano picks his five favorite off-the-beaten path philosophy books. MORE
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Fukuyama Live Chat
Political scientist Francis Fukuyama joined us to discuss the Arab Spring and Wednesday's Egyptian elections. Read the transcript. MORE
