- 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.
- ‘Pure,’ by Andrew Miller
- Charles Lindbergh’s youngest child visits Washington
- Peter Carey’s “The Chemistry of Tears”
- ‘Canada,’ by Richard Ford
- Book World: Literary transvestism in John Irving’s ‘In One Person’
- ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ author draws a devoted crowd to book signing
- Julie Otsuka accepts PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- Julie Otsuka wins PEN/Faulkner Prize for ‘The Buddha in the Attic’
- ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ author E L James spreads the love in Washington
- Brothers launch ‘20 Minute Tales,’ free publication for poetry and short stories
- Philip Levine delivers last lecture as U.S. poet laureate
- 20 Minute Tales debuts on Washington Metro
- Book review: Toni Morrison’s ‘Home,’ a restrained but powerful novel
- Book World: Nell Freudenberger’s ‘The Newlyweds’ explores cross-cultural tensions
- Gary Shteyngart’s super, sad, true comedy
- Author Darin Strauss recalls a deadly tragedy
- Book review: Graham Swift’s “Wish You Were Here,” reviewed by Ron Charles
- Sarah Pekkanen promotes latest book, “These Girls”
- James Bond: Never say die
- Emily Dickinson comes alive at the Folger Library
- ‘Pitchapalooza!’: An ‘American Idol for Books’
- The Book Doctors offer cures for book proposals
- Sarah Pekkanen: Local author moves from her boys to ‘These Girls’
- Book World: Jim Lynch’s ‘Truth Like the Sun’ is a bittersweet love note to Seattle
- Ron Rash’s ‘The Cove’ doesn’t have the energy of his masterpiece, ‘Serena’
- Anne Tyler’s ‘The Beginner’s Goodbye’: Widower keeps running into his late wife
- Julie Otsuka’s ‘The Buddha in the Attic’ wins 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- Julie Otsuka’s “The Buddha in the Attic” wins PEN/Faulkner Award
- Arthur Krystal: The excuses of a mean book critic
- Harper’s: Don’t eat this magazine
- “The Land of Decoration,” by Grace McCleen
- Lauren Groff’s ‘Arcadia’: Trouble in paradise
- John Updike’s books keep running
- ‘The O’Briens,’ by Peter Behrens, a sequel to ‘The Law of Dreams’
- Elaine Pagels’s ‘Revelations’: Tracing reinterpretations of the Apocalypse
- ‘The Spinoza Problem,’ by Irvin Yalom
- Book World: Thomas Mallon’s ‘Watergate’ is imaginative political farce
- Margot Livesey’s ‘The Flight of Gemma Hardy’ takes ‘Jane Eyre’ into modern era
- Book World: Eowyn Ivey’s ‘The Snow Child’ gives fairy tale new life
- Book Review: Barry Unsworth’s ‘The Quality of Mercy’
- Take a chance on ‘The Odds’
- Guy Vanderhaeghe’s ‘A Good Man’ is enlightening end to trilogy
- Joe Dunthorne’s ‘Wild Abandon’: Mixing sweet absurdity with dysfunction
- My favorite novels of 2011
- Book World: ‘Iago’ by David Snodin
- Book World: Three comic works of fiction about God, reviewed by Ron Charles
- Book review: Gripping novellas in Anita Desai’s ‘Artist of Disappearance’
- Could Amazon do this for us? (No.)
- Sabina Murray’s ‘Tales of the New World,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Edith Pearlman wins PEN/Malamud Award
- Peter Orner’s ‘Love and Shame and Love’ follows 3 generations of a politically connected Chicago family
- Hugh Nissenson’s ‘The Pilgrim,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Julie Otsuka’s ‘The Buddha in the Attic,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Patrick deWitt’s ‘The Sisters Brothers’ wins Governor General’s Award in Canada
- Occupy D.C.’s library: A collection as broad as the movement itself
- Should 10-year-olds read Christopher Paolini’s ‘Inheritance’?
- Jesmyn Ward’s ‘Salvage the Bones,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Novelist Emma Donoghue honored by Irish ambassador in Washington
- A modern-day Oedipus wreck: David Guterson’s ‘Ed King,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Essay: ‘Anonymous’ and the Shakespeare conspiracy theory that wouldn’t die
- Bethanne Patrick publishes ‘An Uncommon History of Common Courtesy’
- Ron Charles reviews ‘The Cat’s Table,’ by Michael Ondaatje
- Chautauqua Institution announces new literary prize
- Tony Horwitz celebrates publishing ‘Midnight Rising,’ a book about John Brown
- New issue of Granta gets Halloween off to a smart start
- ‘Zone One,’ by Colson Whitehead: Zombies abound
- Julian Barnes wins Man Booker Prize
- Ron Charles reviews “The Marriage Plot,” by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Tomas Transtromer, Swedish poet, wins Nobel laureate in literature
- Book review: Alice Hoffman’s ‘Dovekeepers’ builds on lives of Jewish heroines
- Ron Charles reviews ‘Nightwoods,’ by Charles Frazier
- Ron Charles reviews Martha Southgate’s new novel, “The Taste of Salt”
- Erin Morgenstern’s “The Night Circus,” reviewed by Ron Charles
- On 9/11, thanks to Bush, ‘The Pet Goat’ became a story of its own
- Ron Charles reviews ‘Birds of Paradise,’ by Diana Abu-Jaber
- ‘The Leftovers,’ by Tom Perrotta
- Ron Charles reviews “Luminarium,” by Alex Shakar
- Ron Charles reviews four new novels about boys from Africa and the Middle East
- Book review: Kevin Wilson’s ‘The Family Fang,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Ron Charles reviews ‘Busy Monsters,’ by William Giraldi
- Ron Charles reviews ‘Stone Arabia’ by Dana Spiotta
- Ron Charles reviews ‘The Last Werewolf’ by Glen Duncan
- Books: ‘Once Upon a River’ by Bonnie Jo Campbell
- Books: Bobbie Ann Mason’s ‘The Girl in the Blue Beret’
- Books: ‘Jamrach’s Menagerie’ by Carol Birch
- Books: ‘The Astral’ by Kate Christensen
- Books: ‘State of Wonder’
- Ron Charles reviews Daniel Wilson’s thriller ‘Robopocalypse’
- Book review: Patrick deWitt’s ‘The Sisters Brothers’
- Book review: ‘The Coffins of Little Hope’
- Books: Jennifer Haigh’s ‘Faith,’ review by Ron Charles
- Ron Charles reviews ‘Doc’ by Mary Doria Russell
- Michael Parker’s ‘The Watery Part of the World,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Book review: Mary Gordon’s ‘The Love of My Youth,’ a melancholy Roman holiday
- Review: Meg Wolitzer’s ‘The Uncoupling’
- Book World: ‘ The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim’
- ‘Emily: Alone’: Stewart O’Nan writes on aging gracefully
- Jonathan Evison’s ‘West of Here’: Last gasp of the pioneer spirit
- Book review: ‘The Tiger’s Wife’ by Tea Obreht
- Book World: ‘Mr. Chartwell’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Review: ‘Caribou Island’
- Review: Kate Pullinger’s ‘The Mistress of Nothing’
- T. Coraghessan Boyle's 'When the Killing's Done,' an environmental novel
- T. Coraghessan Boyle's 'When the Killing's Done,' an environmental novel
- Books: Eleanor Brown's 'The Weird Sisters,' reviewed by Ron Charles
- Books: Eleanor Brown's 'The Weird Sisters,' reviewed by Ron Charles
- Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love
- Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love
- Book review: 'Swamplandia!' is a quirky theme park of characters
- Book review: 'Swamplandia!' is a quirky theme park of characters
- A missing girl's long shadow
- Book review: 'The Fates Will Find Their Way' by Hannah Pittard
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- Ron Charles reviews 'O: A Presidential Novel'
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