http://dir.salon.com/topics/charles_taylor/?source=rss&aim=charles_taylor en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST By Charles Taylor Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/02/01/branch/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/02/01/branch/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2006/01/11/mcbride/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2006/01/11/mcbride/index.html?source=rss With her latest album, Martina McBride breathes new life into contemporary country music by summoning ghosts from the past. By Charles Taylor Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/10/27/guralnick/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/10/27/guralnick/index.html?source=rss In a vast new biography, Peter Guralnick takes on the late, great, silky-smooth crooner Sam Cooke. By Charles Taylor Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2005/02/10/rai/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2005/02/10/rai/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/02/07/lipstadt/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/02/07/lipstadt/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2005/02/04/nobody_knows/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2005/02/04/nobody_knows/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/02/02/kotz/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/02/02/kotz/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2005/01/26/finding_neverland/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2005/01/26/finding_neverland/index.html?source=rss It's not -- despite what some would want us to believe -- because it's the choice of "values voters." By Charles Taylor Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/01/21/0120/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/01/21/0120/index.html?source=rss Haruki Murakami's latest novel unveils a world in which the fantastic is trite and the everyday profound. By Charles Taylor Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2005/01/14/elektra/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2005/01/14/elektra/index.html?source=rss Zap! Pow! Kerplunk! This flick starring Jennifer Garner as a comic-book assassin-heroine is hardly a killer. By Charles Taylor Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/2005/01/12/alias/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/2005/01/12/alias/index.html?source=rss Sure, butt-kicking women have come to dominate pop culture. But nobody knocks you down flat like Sydney Bristow. By Stephanie Zacharek and Charles Taylor Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2004/12/24/best_movies/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2004/12/24/best_movies/index.html?source=rss 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." Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/letters/2004/12/23/hotel_rwanda/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/letters/2004/12/23/hotel_rwanda/index.html?source=rss "It will be fun. It will make us cry": Salon readers respond to Charles Taylor's review of "Hotel Rwanda." By Charles Taylor Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/12/22/hotel_rwanda/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/12/22/hotel_rwanda/index.html?source=rss The world looked away when evil swept through Rwanda. Ten years later, a movie demands that we finally open our eyes. By Charles Taylor Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/12/17/spanglish/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/12/17/spanglish/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/12/17/sea_inside/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/12/17/sea_inside/index.html?source=rss The strapping Javier Bardem soars as a quadriplegic man on a quest to die with dignity. By Charles Taylor Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/12/15/million_dollar/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/12/15/million_dollar/index.html?source=rss Clint Eastwood's boxing movie floats like a lead balloon and stings like a dead bee. By Charles Taylor Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/12/09/hornby/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/12/09/hornby/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2004/12/09/movies_2004/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2004/12/09/movies_2004/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/12/02/rendell/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/12/02/rendell/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/11/26/engagement/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/11/26/engagement/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2004/11/18/brit_am/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2004/11/18/brit_am/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/int/2004/11/17/briar_rose/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2004/11/17/briar_rose/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/11/12/bridget_2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/11/12/bridget_2/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/11/12/big_red/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/11/12/big_red/index.html?source=rss 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.