In a recent opinion piece that ran in The Washington Post, Ron Charles bases an argument for  young people's lack of intellect and sense of "suburban contentment" on the fact that bestselling titles on college campuses lean more towards the popular (Stephenie Meyer and J.K. Rowling for fiction; Ma...

The National Book Critics Circle awarded this weekend the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing to Ron Charles, a senior editor at The Washington Post’s imperiled book review section Book World. The honor was presented Saturday, just over a week after it was reported that higher-ups a...

DEATH WITH INTERRUPTIONS By José Saramago Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa Harcourt. 238 pp. $24 No matter how deadly serious his subjects, there's always been something essentially childlike at the heart of José Saramago's work -- that eagerness to consider simple, outlan...

"You can be the world's biggest hypocrite and still feel good about yourself," begins Frank Schaeffer in his memoir Crazy for God ....

CHRIST THE LORD The Road to Cana By Anne Rice...