Ron Charles
I write about books, authors, and literary culture. Formerly a book critic at The Washington Post.
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Colson Whitehead’s Last Heist
The Tuesday Review
(Doubleday)
Go slowly. This is goodbye.
Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine concludes one of the richest portraits of New York — a suave trilogy of novels that opened in the late 1950s with Harlem Shuffle.
Now, it’s the 1...
The Language of Freedom
(Crown)
Standing before Mount Rushmore on July 3, President Trump said, “In America, we speak English because that is the language of our founding and for a thousand years that has been the language of freedom.”
As Thomas Jefferson wrote...
The Greatest Heist in American History
The Tuesday Review
(MCD/FSG)
Blue diamonds. Vermeer paintings. Gold bars.
These are the treasures of great heist novels.
But Nathaniel Rich’s new thriller isn’t eyeing anything so quaint — or, frankly, any thing at all.
Cloudthief is a...
Inside Dua Lipa’s Library of Banned Books
The Manifesto Library, created by Dua Lipa in partnership with Livraria Lello, contains books that have been challenged around the world. (Photo by Ron Charles.)
PORTO, Portugal — Portugal feels awfully far away from America’s 250th-birthd...
A Book Critic Abroad
Greetings from Ron, Madeline, and Dawn at São Jorge Castle, with Lisbon spread out below.
Maybe every vacation should start with a little disappointment — like rain at a wedding.
After a seven-hour flight from D.C., we arrived in Lisbon...
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