Ron Charles
I write about books, authors, and literary culture. Formerly a book critic at The Washington Post.
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Richard Russo Returns to the Scene of the Crime
The Tuesday Review
(Knopf)
Twenty-five years ago, Richard Russo dedicated his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Empire Falls, to the filmmaker Robert Benton.
In an interview around that time, Russo said Benton had changed his life by getting...
Buzz Kill
(Island Press/Princeton University Press; background photo by Ron Charles)
Every morning after breakfast, Dawn and I take a walk around my folks’ farmhouse in New Hampshire. A red-tailed hawk complains about us from atop a white pine. Dew...
Six Months After the Fall
Cockroaches can survive anything. Apparently, so can book critics.
Today is the six-month anniversary of my pivot to Substack. I say pivot — so elegant! — but it was more like being pushed down the stairs.
Last January, everybody at The W...
Americans Don’t Need Saving from Their History
The Smithsonian’s task is not to canonize the Founders or conceal their contradictions, but to help Americans understand them. (Photo by Ron Charles)
Last Friday, between bombing Iran and bombing at the Correspondents’ Dinner, President Tr...
Hot and Bothered
The Tuesday Review
(Riverhead Books)
Among the swelling collection of books confronting our imperiled planet, Claire Vaye Watkins’s fiction remains defiantly alive. Her stories and novels are rooted in the American West, that awesome expa...
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