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The Most Dangerous Publisher
Barney Rosset, the man who brought Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' to America, died on Tuesday. Here is Louisa Thomas’s profile from 2008.
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Fox vs. the Rabbis
In a newly revealed letter, Fox’s Roger Ailes defended to leading rabbis former host Glenn Beck’s invocations of the Nazis and Obama.
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After the Fact
A provocative new book describes a seven-year battle between an essayist and a fact-checker.
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Better and Better
Cheer up! According to the new book ‘Abundance,’ all the trend lines point to a better, healthier, richer world....
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Our Founding Fathers Were Broke
Washington needed a job. Historian Willard Sterne Randall on the forefathers’ financial struggles.
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Across the Line
In the second installment of the American Dreams series, Nathaniel Rich reads a seminal African-American novel about crossing the color line.
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The Young Putin
The story of the once and future ruler of Russia.
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American Dreams
In the first installment of American Dreams, Nathaniel Rich finds in the 1902 novel "Brewster’s Millions"—the amusing story of man who has to blow $1...
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Phnom Penh
Lawrence Osborne reflects on Cambodia’s haunted and sensual capital.
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The New Science of Feelings
Is your emotional style getting you down?...
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To Each Tongue Its Own
For many Indians the world is experienced through several different languages, as Aravind Adiga...
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The Man Who Saw the Arab Soul
Anthony Shadid was one of the great rational voices in the Middle East.
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Confessions of a Celebrity Escort
Scotty Bowers tells Ramin Setoodeh about all his gay flings with celebrities.
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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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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
An insightful chronicler of America’s poor, writer Katherine Boo takes us to India in her extraordinary first book.
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Stay Awake
Chaon forces readers to literally Stay Awake in his new collection of haunting short stories with a horror bent.
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Granta 118: Exit Strategies
In the celebrated literary journal’s latest issue, eighteen works of fiction, poetry, memoir, reportage, and photojournalism explore the theme of human extrication.
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The Lady in Gold
The riveting social history behind Gustav Klimt’s most famous painting.
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Wild Thing
A raucous, witty new novel from Josh Bazell.
Remembering David Foster Wallace
On what would have been his fiftieth birthday, watch the 'Infinite Jest' author discuss irony and dark humor.
