Charles R. Larson

Charles R. Larson is Emeritus Professor of Literature at American University, in Washington, D.C. Email = clarson@american.edu. Twitter @LarsonChuck.

Holding America Hostage

June 17, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

The Lepidoptreologist in Heaven

June 12, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

Poor and Lonely in Thatcher’s London

June 5, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

Of Quylphs and Bad Sex

May 29, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

Child of the Eastern Cherokees

May 22, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

Friendships That Destroy

May 15, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

The Brothers Agwu

May 8, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

When a Child Disappears

May 1, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

The Poet Who Was Never Young

April 24, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

Morrison’s Pain and Obsessions

April 17, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

Extreme Travel to Every Country on Earth

April 10, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

No Exit: Pain and More Pain

April 3, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

Confessions of a Comma Queen

March 27, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

Fathers and Their Ungrateful Sons

March 20, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

Fifty Shades of Fraud

March 19, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

Banned by the Nazis

March 13, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

Algerian Desperation

February 27, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

China’s One-Child Policy Run Amuck

February 20, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

James Bond is Dead

February 13, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

Mocking the Mockingbird

February 9, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

Other People’s Stories

February 6, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

Immigrants, Lost in Europe

January 30, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

East/West Strangleholds

January 16, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

The Internet: a Giant Job-Killing Machine?

January 9, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

Haitian Voices

January 2, 2015 BY Charles R. Larson

Terrible Decisions and Their Consequences

December 19, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

Father, Son—Falling in Love

December 12, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

American Musicals: 1927-1969

December 5, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

A Life in Four Acts

November 28, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

Dickens’ Last Words, Sort Of

November 21, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

Post-9/11 Espionage Gets Dirty

November 14, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

Struggling to Survive in Hardscrabble America

November 7, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

Nothing Is Illuminated

October 31, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

The Ebola Response: American Stupidity at Its Finest

October 22, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

Two Superb Latin American Novelists

October 17, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

Ebola Catches Fire

October 15, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

Lost in the Canadian Wild

October 10, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

The Dogs of Autumn

October 3, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

September 26, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

Our Most Autobiographical Playwright

September 12, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

Some Families Are Even Happy

September 5, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

A Mexico City Chronicle

August 29, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

Listen, White Conservatives

August 26, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

War’s Facilitators

August 22, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

Changing Your Race

August 15, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

The Decline of America’s Moral Integrity

August 8, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

Portuguese Canadians

August 1, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

China’s Increasing African Presence

July 25, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

Huck Finn Grows Up

July 18, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson

Cold War Ping-Pong

July 11, 2014 BY Charles R. Larson