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Holiday Book Gift Guide 2011
For the history buff, the fashionista and everyone in between, The Daily Beast suggests books for holiday giving.
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Judy Collins’s Quiet Struggles
In a new book, the legendary folk singer offers a disarmingly honest look at her wild life.
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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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DSK's Side of the Story
A new book about DSK claims he is subject of a conspiracy. By Tracy McNicoll
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Reading Was Everything
For a generation Lionel Trilling was the only critic that mattered as a new book by Adam Kirsch explains. By William Giraldi.
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10 Books You Might Have Missed
Some titles that might have flown under the radar.
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Thinking About Thinking
Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman discusses intuition, bias, and how to find the good life with Sam Harris.
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Nasty, Brutish, and Too Long
For a generation Kurt Vonnegut has been read as a humane counterculture novelist but a new biography, reveals him as nasty, cruel, and scary.
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3 Must-Reads
This week: The legends that made New York music, a book of short stories that capture nothing less...
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Amsterdam's Timeless Charm
Reflections on the Dutch city where centuries swirl in the twilight.
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Holbrooke's Last Mission
In an excerpt from a new book, "The Unquiet American," journalist David Rohde salutes Richard...
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The Real Freud Revealed
A long-lost memoir by one of Freud’s disciples has recently been published and reveals a man full...
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Queen of Quirk
Miranda July talks to Carolyn Sun about how she procrastinated her way to a book.
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Best American Short Stories 2011
What defines the American short story? The annual anthology presents its answer based on novelist Geraldine Brooks’ picks.
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The Wandering Falcon
From a Pakistan civil servant, a fictional glimpse into the closed off world of his country’s tribal regions.
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The Ecstasy of Influence
Acclaimed novelist Jonathan Lethem presents a collection of his greatest nonfiction hits on everything from Norman Mailer to Bob Dylan to plagiarism.
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Until the Dawn’s Light
A haunting portrayal of a mixed marriage in 1912 Austria and the wife’s struggle to understand it by Israeli master Aharon Appelfeld.
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Leaving the Atocha Station
A widely acclaimed debut novel with a slyly self-conscious look at a young poet just passing the time.
Inside SEAL Team Six
What was it like to train the SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden? Don Mann, author of 'Inside SEAL Team Six,' describes what life is like for the dedicated force.
