Charles Taylor

  • King's lost dream

    The final volume of Taylor Branch's magisterial biography shows how Martin Luther King Jr. reached out to his enemies. His example should shame the shrill partisans on both sides of our poisonous cultural divide.
    By Charles Taylor February 1, 2006

  • "Timeless" beauty

    With her latest album, Martina McBride breathes new life into contemporary country music by summoning ghosts from the past.
    By Charles Taylor January 11, 2006

  • Soul man

    In a vast new biography, Peter Guralnick takes on the late, great, silky-smooth crooner Sam Cooke.
    By Charles Taylor October 27, 2005

  • The biggest star you've never seen

    Aishwarya Rai is among the planet's biggest box-office draws. So why doesn't Hollywood know what to do with her?
    By Charles Taylor February 10, 2005

  • Shilling for Hitler

    Eminent historians defended Holocaust denier David Irving in the name of free speech and scholarship. Deborah Lipstadt's account of her libel trial with Irving proves how colossally wrong they were.
    By Charles Taylor February 7, 2005

  • "Nobody Knows"

    This deceptively simple Japanese film about four children abandoned by their mother evokes the work of Vittorio De Sica and Satyajit Ray.
    By Charles Taylor February 4, 2005

  • The most liberal president of the 20th century

    Nick Kotz's new book about the civil right years argues convincingly that the true hero of the American left is LBJ.
    By Charles Taylor February 2, 2005

  • Why did "Finding Neverland" snag an Oscar nomination?

    It's not -- despite what some would want us to believe -- because it's the choice of "values voters."
    By Charles Taylor January 26, 2005

  • Master of the ordinary

    Haruki Murakami's latest novel unveils a world in which the fantastic is trite and the everyday profound.
    By Charles Taylor January 21, 2005

  • "Elektra"

    Zap! Pow! Kerplunk! This flick starring Jennifer Garner as a comic-book assassin-heroine is hardly a killer.
    By Charles Taylor January 14, 2005

  • "Alias" grace

    Sure, butt-kicking women have come to dominate pop culture. But nobody knocks you down flat like Sydney Bristow.
    By Charles Taylor January 12, 2005

  • The 10 best movies of 2004

    Salon's critics pick the year's finest films -- from the modest "Before Sunset" to the operatic "House of Flying Daggers" to the magical "A Very Long Engagement" to the triumphantly weird "Incredibles" and "SpongeBob."
    By Stephanie Zacharek and Charles Taylor December 24, 2004

  • Letters

    "It will be fun. It will make us cry": Salon readers respond to Charles Taylor's review of "Hotel Rwanda."
    December 23, 2004

  • Eyes wide shut

    The world looked away when evil swept through Rwanda. Ten years later, a movie demands that we finally open our eyes.
    By Charles Taylor December 22, 2004

  • "Spanglish"

    Want to know why Bush won? Watch James L. Brooks' smug message drama, which tries to skewer clueless liberal do-gooders but only succeeds in impaling itself.
    By Charles Taylor December 17, 2004

  • "The Sea Inside"

    The strapping Javier Bardem soars as a quadriplegic man on a quest to die with dignity.
    By Charles Taylor December 17, 2004

  • "Million Dollar Baby"

    Clint Eastwood's boxing movie floats like a lead balloon and stings like a dead bee.
    By Charles Taylor December 15, 2004

  • "The Polysyllabic Spree" by Nick Hornby

    From the author of "High Fidelity," a delightful celebration of the joys of reading that reminds us why most literary criticism is so bad.
    By Charles Taylor December 9, 2004

  • Can the movies rescue America?

    In a year when Mel Gibson and Michael Moore exploited our deep divisions, we needed more Incredible films to bring us together.
    By Charles Taylor December 9, 2004

  • Woman with a loaded gun

    Across 40 years and 61 novels, the icy-blooded Ruth Rendell has proven to be more than a great mystery writer -- she's one of Britain's finest living novelists.
    By Charles Taylor December 2, 2004

  • War, wizardry and love

    Audrey Tautou searches for a lost love amid the chaos of post-World War I Europe in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's ingenious "A Very Long Engagement," the holiday season's best movie so far.
    By Charles Taylor November 26, 2004

  • Method madness

    Barriers are breaking down between British and American acting styles as stars like Johnny Depp, Claire Danes, and Samantha Morton embrace a dynamic naturalism.
    By Charles Taylor November 18, 2004

  • Love is red, death is blue

    Greil Marcus and Sean Wilentz discuss their amazing new anthology of writing about the American ballad -- and wonder whether Republicans sing better songs of passion and murder than Democrats do.
    By Charles Taylor November 17, 2004

  • "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason"

    Yes, Renee Zellweger looks like a pathetic porker in this sequel to "Bridget Jones's Diary," but it's not her fault.
    By Charles Taylor November 12, 2004

  • "The Big Red One"

    The only sad thing about the gloriously reconstructed version of Sam Fuller's World War II film "The Big Red One" is that Fuller isn't around to see it.
    By Charles Taylor November 12, 2004
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