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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 Feb 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 Jan 11, 2006
Soul man
In a vast new biography, Peter Guralnick takes on the late, great, silky-smooth crooner Sam Cooke.
By Charles Taylor Oct 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Jan 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 Jan 21, 2005
"Elektra"
Zap! Pow! Kerplunk! This flick starring Jennifer Garner as a comic-book assassin-heroine is hardly a killer.
By Charles Taylor Jan 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 Jan 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 Dec 24, 2004
Letters
"It will be fun. It will make us cry": Salon readers respond to Charles Taylor's review of "Hotel Rwanda."
Dec 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 Dec 22, 2004
"The Sea Inside"
The strapping Javier Bardem soars as a quadriplegic man on a quest to die with dignity.
By Charles Taylor Dec 17, 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 Dec 17, 2004
"Million Dollar Baby"
Clint Eastwood's boxing movie floats like a lead balloon and stings like a dead bee.
By Charles Taylor Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 12, 2004
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