Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York.

Currently

  • At Least, At Most

    October 21, 2009 Subscribe

    With his plain, weather-beaten prose, Don Carpenter was a good enough novelist not to have to prove it.

  • Chop Shops

    May 26, 2009

    Over a decade ago, in his novel The Ax, Donald E. Westlake captured the ruthlessness and anomie of economic Darwinism.

  • In the Money

    March 2, 2009

    An exhibit of New Yorker cartoons at the Morgan Library shows that, for the rich, America itself is enemy territory.

2008

  • Death at One's Elbow

    December 17, 2008

    Margaret Thatcher is never named in Derek Raymond's Factory novels, but her shadow falls over them.

  • The Film We Dreamed

    February 19, 2008

    In Zeroville, Steve Erickson explores New Hollywood's promise and doom and the dissolution of cinema into spectacle.

2007

  • Dark Paradise

    October 4, 2007 Subscribe

    A trilogy of hard-boiled detective novels set in Marseilles contemplates the ethnic turmoil in modern-day France.

  • Ill Will

    April 19, 2007

    The most durable piece of Nazi propaganda may yet turn out to be the belief that Leni Riefenstahl is an artistic genius.

  • Decca--Still Raising a Ruckus

    January 3, 2007 Subscribe

2006

  • Class Consciousness

    November 22, 2006

    Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford explores the contradictions of a social revolutionary possessed of an aristocrat's sense of the wrong and right kind of people.

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Blogs

» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
Leslie Savan
20 Comments
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» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman

» Editor's Cut

An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
51 Comments

» The Beat

House Rebels Force Fed Audit, Real Economy Onto Agenda | Frank's Financial Services Committee becomes focal point for revolts by members who worry about powerful banks and unemployment.
John Nichols
24 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
Robert Dreyfuss
201 Comments

» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
58 Comments