‘CUE THE SUN’
Veteran TV critic Emily Nussbaum takes us on a journey through the often disturbing evolution of reality television.
REALEST HOUSEWIVES
The month the show is set, Oct. 1975, was one of the most consequential pop culture moments, setting in motion everything from Real Housewives to Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl.
MISFIT
“I knew as certain events were happening, that I would never forget,” comedian Gary Gulman tells The Daily Beast about his new memoir, “Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the ’80s.”
BEARING WITNESS
His clean, deceptively simple stories brought home the front-line reality of World War II with no sentiment or preaching.
GO YOUR OWN WAY
An iconic ’70s rock band with a tangled web of toxic romances within the group? Fleetwood Mac’s DNA is all over the new series. Here are the real-life stories behind the fiction.
THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMNED
The Daily Beast talks to Roseanne Montillo, whose new book about Capote and the doomed socialite Ann Woodward reveals them as toxic twin strivers.
CRYING SHAME
As Cathy O’Neil points out in her latest book, shame needs shared communal mores to function correctly. But online shaming just creates pariahs.
'MUCH WORSE THAN YOU THINK'
Washington Post reporter Craig Whitlock talks about his new book in which declassified documents reveal a tragic lack of U.S. strategy.
DARK ART
“My friends make fun of me that I can spin anything into a thriller. I can’t help the fact that I think about these dark possibilities,” says Andrea Bartz.
WHAT’S IN A WORD?
Sebastian Junger’s new book does not try to define the word “freedom” but instead asks the reader to meditate on what it means to each individual.