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CultureMarch 2, 2009
In the Money
An exhibit of New Yorker cartoons at the Morgan Library shows that, for the rich, America itself is enemy territory.
Charles Taylor
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December 17, 2008
Death at One’s Elbow: Derek Raymond’s Factory Novels
Margaret Thatcher is never named in Derek Raymond’s Factory novels, but her shadow falls over them.
Charles Taylor
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Books and IdeasFebruary 19, 2008
The Film We Dreamed
In Zeroville, Steve Erickson explores New Hollywood’s promise and doom and the dissolution of cinema into spectacle.
Charles Taylor
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FictionOctober 4, 2007
Dark Paradise
A trilogy of hard-boiled detective novels set in Marseilles contemplates the ethnic turmoil in modern-day France.
Charles Taylor
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BiographyApril 19, 2007
Ill Will
The most durable piece of Nazi propaganda may yet turn out to be the belief that Leni Riefenstahl is an artistic genius.
Charles Taylor
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January 3, 2007
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Autobiography and MemoirNovember 22, 2006
Class Consciousness
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.
Charles Taylor