Recent Reviews
Mark Haddon’s ‘The Red House,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
In Mark Haddon’s “The Red House,” a week of vacation unpacks years of conflict.
‘Homer’ is a tale of contentment
Elisha Cooper’s picture book for young readers is about a very happy observer of the world.
‘Barnum’s Bones’ by Tracey Fern
“Barnum’s Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World,” by Tracey Fern
‘The Drowned Cities,’ by Paolo Bacigalupi
“The Drowned Cities,” a thrilling companion to “Ship Breaker,” by Paolo Bacigalupi.
‘Beautiful Ruins’ by Jess Walter
“Beautiful Ruins”combines nostalgia and lost love on the romantic Italian coast and adventures in cutthroat Hollywood.
“Never Tell”
New York detective Ellie Hatcher returns in “Never Tell,” Alafair Burke’s fast-paced sequel about a suicide case.
A late friend’s journals reveal a secret side
Why do we keep secrets from those we love most? That’s one question in Nichole Bernier’s bittersweet novel “The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.”
Love is not blind in ‘Helen Keller in Love’
Only a brave novelist would imagine a complex romantic narrative for someone as chronicled as Helen Keller, but Rosie Sultan does that in “Helen Keller in Love.”
Book Review: ‘My Extraordinary Ordinary Life’
In a refreshingly down-to-earth and often beautifully written book, Sissy Spacek reminds us why she’s been a cinematic fixture for nearly four decades.
‘Aerogrammes’: Crisp tales of kinship
Washington writer Tania James infuses the real and the clearly imagined with a deftly drawn authenticity.
In age of social media, ‘Wife 22’ clicks
Melanie Gideon delivers a comedy of manners that’s as up-to-the-minute as your favorite Twitter feed.
An ‘arch-conjuror’s’ royal relevance
Glyn Parry’s ‘The Arch-Conjuror of England’ about notorious mathemetician John Dee focuses mainly on his relationship to the court and government of England.
A perfect summer romp
REVIEW | Maggie Shipstead’s novel borrows tropes from classic romantic comedies.
Sunday reviews
Ron Charles
Mark Haddon’s ‘The Red House,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
In Mark Haddon’s “The Red House,” a week of vacation unpacks years of conflict.
Ron Charles
John Lanchester’s ‘Capital’
In vivid, short chapters, we meet London residents who have no idea that by the end of the year, a bank in New York will collapse and throw the economy into chaos.
Ron Charles
A perfect summer romp
REVIEW | Maggie Shipstead’s novel borrows tropes from classic romantic comedies.
Michael Dirda
Review: “The Sovereignties of Invention”
The book of 11 parables and fantasies by Matthew Battles will reel you in but leave you thinking, ”Huh?”
Michael Dirda
Portrait of the author as a man
Gordon Bowker’s new biography of the famed Irish writer James Joyce is a warts-and-all account.
Michael Dirda
An ‘arch-conjuror’s’ royal relevance
Glyn Parry’s ‘The Arch-Conjuror of England’ about notorious mathemetician John Dee focuses mainly on his relationship to the court and government of England.
Jonathan Yardley
“City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age”
P.D. Smith’s guidback to urban life is the best primer on cities since Lewis Mumford’s classic “The City in History”
Jonathan Yardley
“Paris In Love”
Eloisa James chronicles her family’s soujourn in Paris and her fascination with Paris shopping and food.
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