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CHARLES TAYLOR

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Geoff Dyer's WWI memorial

Counting casualties
No matter what bromides are trotted out in the aftermath of tragedy or disaster about the ability of people to pull together, when it comes time to memorialize the event, fissures always show.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  September 06, 2011

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George Pelecanos's Spero falls short

War zero
Better than almost any current writer, Pelecanos has shown what city dwellers have known for years: that it is urban neighborhoods, and not suburbs, where what we think of as the small-town values of community and knowing your neighbors have taken root.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  August 24, 2011

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Donald Ray Pollock's over-the-top gothic

Biblical fury
Donald Ray Pollock's first novel is called The Devil All the Time , and that's exactly what's wrong with it.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  July 06, 2011

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Beyond belief

Three literary fantasies for summer — including a true one
One of the purposes of escapist reading is to feed our daydreams.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  June 16, 2010

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Cool killer

Ace Atkins runs down Machine Gun Kelly
Ace Atkins’s new novel is what the movie Public Enemies should have been.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  May 18, 2010

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Good company

Inspector Montalbano might be the friend you haven't met
One of the attractions of our getting hooked on a series of novels with a recurring protagonist is the reassurance that once every year or so we'll have a friend to catch up with. What we don't like to think about is how it'll feel when that friend is in bad shape.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  March 02, 2010



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Pleasure principles

In happiness begins responsibility
Willard Spiegelman seems like a nice guy. He has had the good luck to live a happy life without major disaster or suffering. But as a long-time professor of English at Southern Methodist University and editor of the Southwest Review , he has ended up living his life among just those people — writers and academics.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  December 02, 2009

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Heart and claw

Joe Lansdale's Hap and Leonard act out
Joe Lansdale's Hap and Leonard act out
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  August 25, 2009

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Wyndham's war

Revisiting a modest master
Francis Wyndham's first book of short stories, Out of the War , was published in 1974, when the author was 50 and in the midst of a distinguished career of reviewing and editing.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  July 21, 2009

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Death watch

Michael Connelly's newspaper elegy
Michael Connelly's newspaper elegy
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  May 19, 2009

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Review: Honey West

Femme fantastic
I didn't see Honey West during its one-season, 1965-'66 prime-time run on CBS.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  February 17, 2009



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Scout's honor

Burn Notice ’s honest con job
In the popular imagination, the spy is always cool, sophisticated, elegant — in other words, European.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  August 26, 2008

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War stories

Mailer on the ’68 conventions
“We will be fighting for forty years.” Reading those words at the end of Norman Mailer’s 1968 Miami and the Siege of Chicago , you can’t help but feel a chill.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  August 19, 2008

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Working girl

In Plain Sight’s straight talk
On USA’s nifty summer series In Plain Sight , Mary McCormack, as federal marshal Mary Shannon, joins the select league of those who’ve made jeans, tank tops, boots, and leather jackets into an American fashion statement.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  July 15, 2008

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Masterful mysteries

Rendell and Nabb transcend genre
Not in the Flesh is Ruth Rendell’s 21st Inspector Wexford novel since she and the character debuted in 1964.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  June 10, 2008

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Past and present

Andrew Motion's is a memoir to savor
A book as scrupulously observed and beautifully wrought as Andrew Motion’s In the Blood can provide a shock of recognition. This, you think, is what memoir was meant to be.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  May 27, 2008



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War of words

Is reading good for you?
Freelance writers are often the recipient of unusual opportunities.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  April 15, 2008

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Paradis found

The chanteuse is loose
Must we still make the case for French pop?
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  April 15, 2008

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Werewolf’s song

Toby Barlow’s verse novel has teeth
The story, the emotion, and the beauty and precision of Barlow’s language can convince you that new writers who want to experiment are not all zombies risen from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  March 18, 2008

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The cyborg and the sistah

Janet’s Discipline and Badu’s New AmErykah
What’s in a fantasy world?
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  March 17, 2008
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