Beast Book Club
Anne Enright’s sparkling novel proves true the old Tolstoy maxim about families.
Jennie Yabroff is a freelance journalist and Daily Beast Contributor living in New York. She is a former staff writer for Newsweek magazine. She has also written for the New York Times, Salon, the New York Observer, the Paris Review Daily, and Biographile.com.
Then Again
She once defied every taboo of YA fiction. Why is her latest book for adult readers so tame?
Unforgettable
In her debut novel, filmmaker/artist/author Miranda July creates the indelible Cheryl Glickman, the anti-romantic likes of whom we rarely see in fiction.
SEX APPEAL
From somebody suffering hypothermia on the set to Prince’s taskmaster methods, some of the more interesting bits from a new history of the movie, soundtrack, and single.
LOL
A new book from Mallory Ortberg imagines what literary legends including King Lear and Jane Eyre would have texted.
The Irish author talks about circling the story in his latest novel for years, if not all his life, since some is true and some is fiction. Just don’t expect him to say which is which.
Counterintuitive
Think of Poehler as the ‘anti-Sheryl Sandberg’—a high-profile female whose witty, breezy new memoir argues that obsessing over your career may not be the path to happiness.
Macabre
The ‘Wolf Hall’ author’s new story collection features ghosts, vampires, monsters, alternative universes, and other precincts familiar to the fans of Poe and Rod Serling.
In her sequel to 'Push,' Sapphire recounts the next generation of abuse.
Novelist Chris Adrian talks about his new Shakespearean novel, The Great Night, how being a doctor inspires his work, and why he’d rather be writing about “zombie bunnies."