Recent Reviews
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Book review: Charles Rosen’s ‘Freedom and the Arts’
Seldom does a book of literary essays so unashamedly champion study and scholarship as does pianist and polymath Charles Rosen’s “Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature.”
Ron Charles reviews ‘One Last Thing Before I Go,’ ‘Evel Knievel Days’
Jonathan Tropper’s “One Last Thing Before I Go” and Pauls Toutonghi’s “Evel Knievel Days.” Reviewed by Ron Charles
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Finding roots of black music
Two smart books about the music of black culture: “Go-go Live,” by Natalie Hopkinson and “The Dozens,” by Elijah Wald.
Teenage angst grows up
Molly Ringwald’s first novel, “When It Happens to You,” weaves a tale of betrayal that avoids getting bogged down in melodrama.
New crime fiction trilogy: ‘The Twenty-Year Death’
“The Twenty-Year Death,” a massive and marvelous crime trilogy by Ariel S. Winter
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“The Forever Marriage”
Ann Bauer’s blunt novel may make some readers uncomfortable, but it makes for a compelling read.
‘Buried on Avenue B’
Peter de Jonge’s second novel stars the lovable if muddled Detective Darlene O’Hara in a story with style and whimsy.
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“The Fan Who Knew Too Much”
Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations.
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“Alif the Unseen”
G. Willow Wilson’s first novel is an intoxicating mix of politics, science fiction and fantasy in an Arab security state.
‘Tigers in Red Weather': A clever look at a family feud
Liza Klaussmann’s “Tigers in Red Weather” is a clever psychological drama. Reviewed by Ron Charles.
In‘Hologram for the King,’ American dream is deferred
In Dave Egger’s novel, the American dream is deferred.
Sunday reviews
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Book World bestsellers: Aug. 10
What Washington has been reading
Poetry
“My Poets” by Maureen N. McLane
(FSG / FSG)
This is a deeply personal and eccentric book. McLane is idiosyncratic not in the poets she selects, but in why she selects and how she responds to them.
Ron Charles
Ron Charles reviews ‘One Last Thing Before I Go,’ ‘Evel Knievel Days’
Jonathan Tropper’s “One Last Thing Before I Go” and Pauls Toutonghi’s “Evel Knievel Days.” Reviewed by Ron Charles
Ron Charles
‘Tigers in Red Weather': A clever look at a family feud
Liza Klaussmann’s “Tigers in Red Weather” is a clever psychological drama. Reviewed by Ron Charles.
Ron Charles
How to save an indie bookstore
Last week, 80 volunteers from around the country met to save Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park, Calif.
Michael Dirda
Book review: Charles Rosen’s ‘Freedom and the Arts’
Seldom does a book of literary essays so unashamedly champion study and scholarship as does pianist and polymath Charles Rosen’s “Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature.”
Michael Dirda
“The Werewolf of Paris”
Guy Endore’s notorious novel is a classic work of horror from 1933.
Michael Dirda
Author and gadfly Gore Vidal dead at 86
Gore Vidal, hailed for his bold writing and brazen wit, died of complications from pneumonia in his Hollywood Hills home.
Matt Schudel
Robert Hughes, bare-knuckle art critic and author, dies at 74
Mr. Hughes, who brought a muscular, confrontational writing style to the genteel world of art criticism, died Aug. 6.
Jonathan Yardley
“The Eighteen-day Running Mate”
Joshua M. Glasser explores George McGovern’s ill-fated selection of Thomas Eagleton as his running mate in 1972.
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