Charles Taylor

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

In the Money In the Money

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

Mar 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor

Death at One’s Elbow: Derek Raymond’s Factory Novels 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.

Dec 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor

The Film We Dreamed The Film We Dreamed

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

Feb 19, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor

Dark Paradise Dark Paradise

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

Oct 4, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor

Ill Will Ill Will

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

Apr 19, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor

Decca–Still Raising a Ruckus Decca–Still Raising a Ruckus

Berkeley, Calif.

Jan 3, 2007 / Our Readers and Charles Taylor

Class Consciousness 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.

Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor

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