Ron Charles
I write about books, authors, and literary culture. Formerly a book critic at The Washington Post.
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Ben Fountain imagines Trump meeting his match
The Tuesday Review
(Flatiron Books)
The only person unsurprised by the upcoming cage match on the White House lawn is Ben Fountain. His absurd new novel, Rasputin Swims the Potomac, is so timely it should win a Pulitzer Prize for Clairvoy...
Keep Your Mouth Shut — or Else
(Flatiron Books; photo illustration by Ron Charles)
At the Hay Festival in Wales last weekend, dozens of writers talked about their books. But one writer sat on stage completely silent for a full hour.
This wasn’t an avant-garde work of p...
Ann Patchett and the stories that rescue us
The Tuesday Review
(Harper)
Ann Patchett’s new novel, Whistler, is that loveliest of summer gifts, a story of reconciliation, of old affections renewed, of a family’s circumference enlarged. Fans of the author’s previous work will open th...
The Right to Make Noise
(Patagonia)
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“Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”
— John Lewis
Oil companies call t...
In Maggie O’Farrell’s haunted Ireland, the land remembers everything
The Tuesday Review
(Knopf)
I thought I understood the Irish Potato Famine that killed more than a million people and sent millions more fleeing abroad. But a few years ago, during a tour of Trinity College Dublin, our guide paused to ment...
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