Charles R. Larson

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

Republican Dream Ticket Finally Emerges

The Wandering Arab

Welcome to Lagos

Two Islamic Writers on the Cutting Edge

The Rushdie Affair and Its Aftermath

Pay Attention to Their Men

The Year of Living Dangerously

Bollywood Noir?

Uruguay’s Conscience

The Beatification of Ronald Reagan

Black Writers Talk About Their Writing

This Revolution is Brought to You by Al-Jazeera

Salinger, Still Unknowable

Ceausescu’s Bleak Romania

Only in Latin America

Palin’s Mouth

No Escape Anywhere

Japan, From the Ruins

Intimate Journeys, Thwarted Desire

The Two Best Reads of 2010

Waiting for King Lear

Literary Hijinks Made Fatal

Six Ways to Eliminate the Deficit

America’s First Graphic Novelist

Palintology 101 (Part One)

The Last Word, One Hundred Years Later

Abused Women … Still a Growth Industry

Witnesses of Haiti’s History

Fear of Growing Up

How to Destroy Your Marriage

How to Destroy Your Marriage

Fighting to End Africa’s Worst Human Rights Crimes

America’s Religious Veneer

Egypt’s Camus?

What Do Conservatives Read?

America’s Self-Inflicted Wounds

From Il to Un

Red Capitalism in Vietnam

You Are What You Think

The Anti-Masturbation Candidate

Citizen of the World

Algeria, on the Edge

Elias Khoury’s White Masks

Sweden’s Sexual Dystopia

A Somalian Story

Namibia’s Brutal History

The Last Woman on Earth

The Harsh Realities of Place

The Translator and His Charge

Parallel History