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CHARLES TAYLOR

Charles Taylor is the author of Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American ’70s. He lives in New York.
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For the Love of Melodrama: On Bohemian Rhapsody

November 19, 2018

ARTICLES

Big Town, Big Talk: On “Motherless Brooklyn”

Big Town, Big Talk: On “Motherless Brooklyn”

Charles Taylor explores the historical and cinematic resonances of Edward Norton’s adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel, “Motherless Brooklyn.”

In Defiance of Staying in One’s Lane: On Edna O’Brien’s “Girl”

In Defiance of Staying in One’s Lane: On Edna O’Brien’s “Girl”

Charles Taylor is moved by Edna O’Brien’s new novel, “Girl.”

Lost and Found

Lost and Found

Charles Taylor marvels over "Amazing Grace."

Christian Petzold’s Anti-Speculative Fiction

Christian Petzold’s Anti-Speculative Fiction

"Transit" offers the unreassuring thrill of a reasonable, intelligent person having the nerve to say, clearly, just how bad he thinks things are.

Freddie Outside the Bronx: Frederic Tuten’s “My Young Life”

Freddie Outside the Bronx: Frederic Tuten’s “My Young Life”

Reading Frederic Tuten's "My Young Life," you’re aware of just how easily this might have been a dilettante’s memoir.

Melancholy Dane: Sigrid Nunez’s “The Friend”

Melancholy Dane: Sigrid Nunez’s “The Friend”

Charles Taylor catches up with "The Friend" by Sigrid Nunez.

It Takes Two: “Shadowbahn” by Steve Erickson

It Takes Two: “Shadowbahn” by Steve Erickson

Charles Taylor on Steve Erickson's "Shadowbahn."

A Man in Himself Is a City: Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson”

A Man in Himself Is a City: Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson”

Charles Taylor visits Jim Jarmusch's "Paterson."

Overlooked, Again

Overlooked, Again

Charles Taylor reviews Tom Jones's autobiography.

Shoe Leather: On “Spotlight”

Shoe Leather: On “Spotlight”

For writer-director McCarthy and his co-writer Singer, "Spotlight" is a leap in terms of scale and depth.

Answers No One Wants to Hear

Answers No One Wants to Hear

Charles Taylor reviews Michel Houellebecq's "Submission."

On the Hoof, On the Barrel: “On Prime Cut”

On the Hoof, On the Barrel: “On Prime Cut”

"Prime Cut" is a sardonic report from the battle to define what America was and who it was for.

Bebop/Silence: On Hickey & Boggs

Bebop/Silence: On Hickey & Boggs

"The final irony of Hickey & Boggs is that this movie about isolation and displacement is an affirmation of a real-life partnership."

Three the Hard Way: The Return of Sleater-Kinney

Three the Hard Way: The Return of Sleater-Kinney

On Sleater-Kinney’s legacy upon the release of their vinyl boxset, "Start Together."

Eight Arms to Hold You

Eight Arms to Hold You

"A Hard Day’s Night," newly restored, in Criterion Collection DVD & Blu-Ray.

Let Me Whisper in Your Ear

Let Me Whisper in Your Ear

He was quite tall, and rather lanky, and a bit boyish looking in his battered flannels. But his eyes were brown,

Support Your Local Wussy

Support Your Local Wussy

THIS IS NOT A HOME / This is an apartment,” sings Chuck Cleaver of the Cincinnati band Wussy on “Acetylene,” a song

Escape Artist

Escape Artist

Charles Taylor reviews Johnny Moncada’s unseen photographs of Veruschka, the timeless model from the 1960s.

Meryl Streep’s Hunger Games

Meryl Streep’s Hunger Games

I KNOW OF A COUPLE that has harmoniously chosen movies to watch together for years by following some very simple rules.

Atmosphere for Lovers and Thieves: Leos Carax’s “Mauvais sang”

Atmosphere for Lovers and Thieves: Leos Carax’s “Mauvais sang”

THE LOVER. THE THIEF. The filmmaker. At their most suave, they are all seducers. At their most deft, they are all

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