I write about books, authors, and literary culture. Formerly a book critic at The Washington Post.
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Marlon James and the Horrors of Vanishing
The Tuesday Review
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You’ll have to read Marlon James’s new novel, The Disappearers, wearing asbestos gloves. The pages of this incomparable epic are fueled by desire and torched by rage.
The author, who won a Booker Prize for...
Our Open Book with Ron Charles on online author scams and what he is reading
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Stop Wasting My Time
(Ecco)
Babies always sweep away the carefully laid plans of their parents. But our first child almost swept us away, too.
In the summer of 1989, Elissa was born with cerebral palsy.
I was working as an instructor at a small college where...
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The United States of Fear
The Tuesday Review
(Knopf)
While I read Edwidge Danticat’s new novel about gun violence, six members of a family died by gunfire in Winfield, Kansas; another five were massacred near Lake City, Michigan.
It’s unlikely you heard much abou...
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