Ron Charles

Avni Doshi’s novel about a mother and daughter takes candor to extremes.

In these latter days of Trump’s calamitous reign, his disciples have co-opted not just Big Brother’s methods but Orwell’s very name.

North’s fresh take on the western is a thrilling tale that’s eerily familiar but utterly transformed.

“Black Buck” is alternately sly and sweet, a work of cultural criticism that laments and celebrates the power of money.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's copyright expired on Jan. 1, 2021 — more adaptations are coming!

Michael Farris Smith’s prequel capitalizes on the copyright expiration of Fitzgerald’s 1925 classic.

A handful of new novels could portend a dramatic break from more than a century of visual dullness.

With its buoyant sense of wonder, “D” is a novel graciously indebted to the fantasies of C.S. Lewis, James Thurber and Norton Juster.

We’re still coming to grips with the “revelation” that creators we love can say and do despicable things.

My introduction to contemporary poets was a trial by fire. Here’s what I learned along the way.