Ron Charles

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Ron Charles

‘The Slip’ is a sweaty masterpiece (washingtonpost.com) ‘The Slip’ is a sweaty masterpiece By Ron Charles 2025053012315800 And in this corner, weighing in at 487 pages, fighting out of Austin, against books far above its weight class — a novel making a worldwide debut: "The Slip," by Lucas Schaefer. (Pause for wild cheering.) Here's a novel so pumped up and shredded it can't possibly sit still on a shelf.

1 week ago | cbsnews.com | Ron Charles

By Washington Post book critic Ron CharlesHere are five hot new books to check out this summer: If you're trying to figure out what's happening with artificial intelligence, pick up "Empire of AI." Journalist Karen Hao investigates the rise of OpenAI and its visionary co-founder, Sam Altman. With alarming detail, she shows how this once idealistic company became everything it said it would not be, even as it remakes and gobbles up the world.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Ron Charles

By Washington Post book critic Ron CharlesHere are five hot new books to check out this summer:If you're trying to figure out what's happening with artificial intelligence, pick up "Empire of AI." Journalist Karen Hao investigates the rise of OpenAI and its visionary co-founder, Sam Altman. With alarming detail, she shows how this once idealistic company became everything it said it would not be, even as it remakes and gobbles up the world.

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Ron Charles

With ‘Flashlight,’ Susan Choi gets even more ambitious (washingtonpost.com) With ‘Flashlight,’ Susan Choi gets even more ambitious By Ron Charles 2025052214455900 If you read it, you remember it: Five years ago, Susan Choi published a fraught story in the New Yorker about a little girl sparring with a psychologist after her father drowned in Japan.

3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Ron Charles

In Kevin Wilson’s poignant, comic stories, the theatricality of family life often takes center stage. Wilson reminds us that our parents and siblings are both actors and audience for a show that’s intensely private but inevitably public. In his hilarious debut novel, “The Family Fang” (2011) — adapted into a movie starring Nicole Kidman and Jason Bateman — Wilson follows the humiliations of two children who are dragged into the mad antics of their performance artist parents.