Charles R. Larson

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

Growing Up With Drugs and Sex

When Republicans Debate

Yesterday’s Prurience

On the Streets of Cairo, Circa. 2000

Iowa Should Withdraw

Pakistan: Fifty Years Later

In a Country of Mothers

Looking at African-American Icons

The Sadness of Home

How to Change the World One Dead Mosquito at a Time

Women Are Better At Almost Everything

Altered Realities, Rearranged Lives

Moby-Dick Redux

Safety Zone Madness

Final Ramblings of a Celebrated Atheist

Border People

Class War on the Sub-Continent

The Rich are Different Than You and Me

Before the Opium Wars

Voyage of a Lifetime

Gay During Apartheid

Life’s Unexpected Happenings

India’s Dark Underbelly

War By Any Other Name

Return to Africa, 50 Years Later

How to Survive in Somalia

The Horrors of People Trafficking

The Tensions of Not Knowing

Robbing the Poor to Pay the Rich

Bangladesh’s Troubled Birth

Edgar Allen Poe Redux

Naughty Children Need to be Punished

Not Bloody Likely

Zimbabwe’s Filthy Lucre

Pilgrim’s Progress

No Country for Sane Men

Swedish Travesty of Justice

Two Summer Reads

Survival of the Fittest?

Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman

Communism as Comedy

A Life of Reinvention

Korean Family Dynamics

Hell in Nigeria’s Delta

Pure Joy

Sudanese Family Saga

Nigerian Election Carnage

Tunisian Tiger

The Politicide of Zimbabwe

A Walker in New York City