Ron Charles
I write about books, authors, and literary culture. Formerly a book critic at The Washington Post.
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The Erotic Life of a True-Crime Junkie
The Tuesday Review
(Summit Books)
A Little Bit Bad, the debut novel by Cassandra Neyenesch, starts with a man falling off a ladder. Reading this gleefully disorienting story, you’ll know how he feels.
Neyenesch’s book is a little bit of...
Will Human-Raised Children Become a Luxury Product?
Human connection begins with stories shared together. Madeline Charles reads to her sister, Elissa. (Photo by Ron Charles)
Dr. Dana Suskind remembers when her waiting room crackled with children laughing and crying. “Now,” she says, “I go...
Douglas Stuart’s Best Novel Yet
The Tuesday Review
(Grove Press)
Douglas Stuart, author of the Booker Prize-winning Shuggie Bain, is becoming a problem. With the publication of his third novel, John of John, we’re running out of superlatives.
It doesn’t seem possible n...
The Most Exciting Room in Washington
A giant card catalog sits in the middle of The Source, a new gallery for young people at the Library of Congress. (Photo by Ron Charles)
Let’s get the bad news over with first.
We’ve grown used to book banners going after novels like Belo...
Elizabeth Strout’s Portrait of a Good Man in Quiet Crisis
The Tuesday Review
(Random House)
Every eight months, someone publishes an essay announcing the rediscovery of Stoner. By now, John Williams’s 1965 novel about an English professor has been lost and found as often as my car keys.
I pray...
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