- Ron Charles
- Critic
Ron came to The Post in 2005 from the Christian Science Monitor, where he was the Book Editor and lead critic. He lives in Bethesda with his wife, an English teacher at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.
‘The Spinoza Problem,’ by Irvin Yalom
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Jane Eyre’s ‘Flight,’ without her fire
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Eowyn Ivey’s ‘The Snow Child’
In this fantastical first novel, a little girl seems to be the answer to a couple’s prayers.
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Glenn Kessler discussed Rick Santorum’s bogus statistics about euthanasia in the Netherlands, and more.
