[ad_1] By Washington Post book critic Ron Charles This month’s books take us from pre-Civil War America to the modern-day politics, the rise of Silicon Valley, and the future of the planet. Doubleday For 140 years, people have been reading, praising and condemning “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Well, get ready to see Mark Twain’s…
[ad_1] By Washington Post book critic Ron Charles Snow and ice kept me trapped inside for weeks last month, but I didn’t mind, because I had great new books to read, like these: Random House Forty years ago, a demonstration took place outside the Libyan Embassy in London. As students shouted protests against Libyan leader…
[ad_1] By Washington Post book critic Ron Charles Every year it’s always agonizing to pick a too-short list of my favorite novels from among so many, but here goes: Farrar, Straus and Giroux “The Bee Sting” by Paul Murray (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is an epic tragicomedy about an Irish family straining under the…
[ad_1] By Washington Post book critic Ron Charles With Halloween creeping up on us, here are some new books haunted by ghosts and monsters of one kind or another. Random House By the time old spirits start gathering in Daniel Mason’s new novel “North Woods” (Random House), it’s too late to flee. You’ll already be…
[ad_1] By Washington Post book critic Ron Charles Here are a few of my favorite novels this fall, and one biography that everybody is talking about. Riverhead James McBride is familiar to millions of readers who’ve enjoyed his memoir “The Color of Water,” and his exuberant novels have established him as one of the most…
[ad_1] By Washington Post book critic Ron Charles Here are four titles that might help keep you cool this summer. Knopf Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo is back with “Somebody’s Fool” (Knopf), his third, thoroughly charming novel about the folks in North Bath, New York. But this time, the struggling town is finished – about to…
[ad_1] By Washington Post book critic Ron Charles As we all look forward to summer, here are a few new titles to check out: Putnam’s Two’s company, three’s a crowd – and what a crowd they are, in this smart, sly novel by Ore Agbaje-Williams. “The Three of Us” (Putnam’s) presents a day in the lives…
