Charles Arrowsmith

Review: Four New History Books (Washington Post)

Review: The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor (Boston Globe)

Review: Berlin by Bea Setton (Washington Post)

Essay: Dante by Thomas Adès and the LA Phil (Nonesuch Records)

Review: Flux by Jinwoo Chong (Washington Post)

Feature: Stanley Kubrick's The Shining—An Interview with Lee Unkrich (LA Times)

Opinion: The Oscars 2022 (The Independent)

Review: The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis (LA Times)

Review: A Left-Handed Woman by Judith Thurman (LA Times)

Perspective: Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end (Washington Post)

Review: Stay True by Hua Hsu (Washington Post)

Review: The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt (LA Times)

Review: A Woman's Battles and Transformations by Édouard Louis (LA Times)

Review: Either/Or by Elif Batuman (Washington Post)

Review: The Palace Papers by Tina Brown (LA Times)

Opinion: The Oscars 2021 (The Independent)

Review: Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood (Washington Post)

Review: Home/Land by Rebecca Mead (LA Times)

Review: Small World by Jonathan Evison (Washington Post)

Review: The Making of Incarnation by Tom McCarthy (Washington Post)

Review: Will by Will Smith (Washington Post)

Review: The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard (LA Times)

Review: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino (Washington Post)

Review: Double Blind by Edward St. Aubyn (Washington Post)

Review: Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare (Washington Post)

Opinion: The Oscars 2020 (The Independent)

Review: Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Washington Post)

Review: The Beauty of Living Twice by Sharon Stone (Washington Post)

Review: Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion (Washington Post)

Review: In the Land of the Cyclops by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Washington Post)

Books of 2020

Review: Feline Philosophy by John Gray (Washington Post)

Feature: Paul Thomas Anderson (Washington Post)

Review: 150 Glimpses of the Beatles by Craig Brown (Washington Post)

Review: Endland by Tim Etchells (Washington Post)

Review: Are Snakes Necessary? by Brian De Palma and Susan Lehman (Washington Post)

Review: Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Washington Post)

Opinion: The Oscars 2019 (The Independent)

Feature: Doctor Sleep, Stephen King, and Stanley Kubrick (Washington Post)

Review: Find Me by André Aciman (Washington Post)

Review: Ecstasy and Terror by Daniel Mendelsohn (Washington Post)

Feature: Pedro Almodóvar, Pain and Glory (Washington Post)

Review: Raised in Captivity by Chuck Klosterman (Washington Post)

Review: Mr. Know-It-All by John Waters (Washington Post)

Review: White by Bret Easton Ellis (Washington Post)

Opinion: The Oscars 2018 (The Independent)

Review: The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen (Washington Post)

Review: Room to Dream by David Lynch & Kristine McKenna (Washington Post)

Every Book I've Read Since 2008

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