- 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.
- Anton DiSclafani’s ‘The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls’ is no one-trick phony
- One Teen Story gets one new editor
- Hay-Adams Author Series begins its second chapter
- Karen Joy Fowler is completely beside herself
- J. Courtney Sullivan leaps from 'The Engagements' to her wedding
- Book review: Ron Charles on J. Courtney Sullivan’s ‘The Engagements’
- The biggest book of the year: 'Sheep in a Jeep'
- 10 coming-of-age novels for summer
- Slice Bookshelf joins a crowded field of virtual book sites
- A.M. Homes wins Women's Prize
- Bazooka Joe turns 60
- Book review: Ron Charles on Colum McCann’s ‘TransAtlantic’
- Philipp Meyer's 'The Son' gets strong support from indie bookstores
- 'Wicked Plants' author Amy Stewart on the dangers of ricin-tainted letters
- Adam Smith sees his stock rise fast
- Folger Shakespeare Library looks toward a brighter future
- National Book Critics Circle announces new award category
- Karen Joy Fowler’s ‘We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves’
- 'The Great Gatsby' should be the new 'Rocky Horror Picture Show'
- 10 things you can do with your Borders gift cards
- Politics & Prose Bookstore offers free shipping over Memorial Day weekend
- Harlequin to disrobe new Cosmo Red-Hot Reads
- Stephen Brumwell wins George Washington Book Prize
- Philipp Meyer’s ‘The Son,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- 'Apocalypse Cow,' by Michael Logan
- Two thumbs up! (I hated it)
- Adam Mansbach at the Gaithersburg Book Festival
- Timothy Egan wins Chautauqua Prize for "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher"
- Gail Godwin’s ‘Flora,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Paul Muldoon fed and feted at Irish ambassador's residence
- Ahoy! 'Moby Dick, or, The Card Game'
- Anthony Marra’s ‘A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Benjamin Alire Saenz receives PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award
- U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey: Poetry still matters
- Michelle Obama coming to Politics & Prose Bookstore
- Book review: ‘Red Moon’ as sharp — and subtle — as a werewolf’s bite
- Novelist Don DeLillo named first recipient of Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
- The Totally Hip Book Review of Claire Messud's 'The Woman Upstairs'
- Claire Messud’s ‘The Woman Upstairs,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Kevin Powers's "The Yellow Birds" among Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winners
- "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" named a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize
- Southern indie bookstore owners pick their favorite titles
- How to visualize anything
- Andrew Solomon wins Lukas Book Prize
- "Stag's Leap" sells out after winning Pulitzer Prize
- Granta's Best Young British Novelists
- Elizabeth Alexander opens the Hill Center Poetry Series
- Andre Aciman’s ‘Harvard Square,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Amazon buys Goodreads -- and then goes totally hip
- Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Flamethrowers,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Remodeled St. Louis Central Library is a marvel
- Jill McCorkle’s ‘Life After Life,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Sheryl Sandberg and Ben Franklin lean in together
- The Western Writers of America lasso the best books of the year
- Elizabeth Strout’s ‘The Burgess Boys,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- 10 years of the Iraq War: 10 great books
- Dan Brown's 'Inferno' is already burning
- Two female Supreme Court Justices on the bestseller list
- Fifty weeks of 'Fifty Shades of Grey'
- Luck o' the Irish: 7 novelists for St. Patrick's Day
- The Life of Pi Day
- Washington native aims to set record for most book club visits in a month
- Jonathan Dee’s ‘A Thousand Pardons,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- The Curious Incident of the Kindle Single in the Day-Time
- Books for Daylight Saving Time travelers
- Joyce Carol Oates and the accursed tale of two dust jackets
- Washington writer Thomas Mallon among finalists for PEN/Faulkner Award
- Book World: ‘The Accursed,’ by Joyce Carol Oates
- Rev. Luis Leon reveals response to his reference to gays in presidential inauguration
- New poetry series to begin soon in Washington
- With 10-year edition of ‘Riding the Bus’ comes subtler understanding of intellectual disability
- Amazon website down briefly Friday afternoon
- Poem by 13-year-old Charlotte Bronte could fetch $67,000
- Natasha Trethewey celebrates 75th anniversary of Poetry and Literature Center
- Mohsin Hamid’s ‘How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia’: Life, self help-style
- Mary Doria Russell on the perils (and rewards) of being a midlist novelist
- 'Book Thief' author Markus Zusak remembers humble beginnings
- Howard County library rides into annual fundraiser with a Western flair
- Kent Haruf’s ‘Benediction’: A bittersweet survey of small-town life and death
- Ron Paul writing education manifesto
- "Human Capital" finds a market in Italy
- Ron Paul is calling school to order
- Relax -- rabies is good news!
- Haruki Murakami fans: Brush up on your Japanese
- George Mason professor among finalists for $50,000 history prize
- On Presidents' Day, a rare peek into the heart of the Library of Congress
- What to read before the asteroid strikes
- How do bestselling novelists court Cupid on Valentine's Day?
- Valentine's Day at Harlequin headquarters
- Tara Conklin’s ‘The House Girl’
- Hatchet Job of the Year Award
- AARP launches new book blog
- Would you pay to browse in a real bookstore?
- President Lyndon B. Johnson at St. John's Church
- How wet is the Arena Stage's 'Metamorphoses'?
- America the Distracted -- from Walden Pond to Facebook
- 'Creaky voice' draws huge audience to 'Lexicon Valley' podcast
- Washington area remains nation's 'most literate city' -- and among most romantic
- Books that illuminated gay life for Americans
- Amity Gaige’s ‘Schroder,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Sandra Day O'Connor event sells out in hours
- Bookish Web site debuts
- YA author Rachel Cohn visits Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
- US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey on the legacy of the Civil War
- Manil Suri’s ‘The City of Devi,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Stephen King releases gun control essay
- Book review: Lynn Coady’s ‘The Antagonist’
- Captain Underpants now available on the iPad
- Rilla’s Askew’s ‘Kind of Kin’ talks about immigration, but its antic tone undermines the subject
- Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar win National Book Critics Circle lifetime achievement award
- National Book Critics Circle finalists announced
- ‘The Bachelor’ turns up the heat with Harlequin
- Richard Blanco chosen as inaugural poet
- ‘Rage Is Back,’ a quirky and colorful tale of comeuppance
- Gary Shteyngart blurbs
- The Washington City Paper fiction issue
- King Arthur returns, in strange literary guises
- Sebastian Faulks’s ‘A Possible Life,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Book buyers confront ‘The Myth of Choice’
- Morgan Hill Bookstore finds new owners
- Ben Fountain wins $10,000 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize
- Oprah’s latest pick: ‘The Twelve Tribes of Hattie,’ by Ayana Mathis
- Karen Engelmann’s ‘The Stockholm Octavo,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Larger-than-life mystery of love and murder
- Book World: It’s unhappily ever after in Christine Schutt’s ‘Prosperous Friends’
- In Colm Toibin’s ‘The Testament of Mary,’ Jesus’ mother takes on the Gospel writers
- Reviewing books on a Kindle
- Deborah Levy’s ‘Swimming Home,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Comic novelist Elinor Lipman’s tweet idea: Daily presidential campaign poetry
- Book World: Barbara Kingsolver’s novel approach in ‘Flight Behavior’
- Three books on Frankenstein
- Jami Attenberg’s “The Middlesteins" reviewed by Ron Charles
- ‘Frankenstein: A Monstrous Parody’ is a frightfully fun remake of ‘Madeline’
- Frankenstein Madeline Rick Walton Nathan Hale
- Hilary Mantel wins Man Booker Prize for ‘Bring Up the Bodies’
- Tom Wolfe’s “Back to Blood” reviewed by Ron Charles
- National Book Award finalists announced
- Justin Cronin’s ‘The Twelve’: Bloodless sequel to best-selling ‘Passage’
- Jon Clinch self-publishes ‘The Thief of Auschwitz’
- Book World: ‘The Round House’ is a moving novel about youth, maturity and family
- For mystery writer Barbara Mertz’s 85th birthday, friends bring Egypt to her
- ‘The Yellow Birds,’ a novel of grit, grace and blood by an Iraq war veteran
- Book World: ‘San Miguel’ by T.C. Boyle
- Everything you always wanted to know about the National Book Festival (but were afraid to ask)
- Book World: ‘Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving’ is a journey back to life
- Man Booker Prize shortlist announced
- ‘Telegraph Avenue’ by Michael Chabon: A tribute to vintage vinyl
- ‘NW’ by Zadie Smith: A brilliant novel — for the dedicated reader
- “Lionel Asbo,” a new satire about the state of England, by Martin Amis. Reviewed by Ron Charles
- One Story launches magazine for teens
- One Teen Story launches new magazine
- Ron Charles: Tropper’s ‘One Last Thing Before I Go,’ Toutonghi’s ‘Evel Knievel Days’
- Language that lifts and separates
- Has Twitter made book reviewers too nice?
- Liza Klaussmann’s ‘Tigers in Red Weather’: Clever psychological drama
- How to save an independent bookstore
- How To Save an Indie Bookstore: Day 3
- How to save an indie bookstore: Day 2
- How to save an indie bookstore: Day 1
- Rachel Joyce’s ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Washington Post receives the world’s largest correction letter — about the Titanic
- Kurt Andersen’s ‘True Believers’
- Stephen Carter’s ‘Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln’: Mystery and alternate history
- Karen Thompson Walker’s ‘The Age of Miracles,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Mark Haddon’s ‘The Red House,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
- Bloomsday at the Irish Embassy
- Paper-cut artist from Washington illustrates striking new edition of Shakespeare
- ‘Capital,’ by John Lanchester: London on the eve of the financial collapse
- Sister Farley’s revenge: Want to popularize a book? Ban it.
- Book World: ‘Seating Arrangements,’ by Maggie Shipstead, is a perfect summer romp
- ‘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
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