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CHARLES TAYLOR

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Holding out Hope

Mandy Moore does it her way
A few weeks ago, I was sitting in a bar having a quiet late-afternoon cocktail when I became aware of an insistent, irritating noise.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  June 19, 2007

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Before and after the Riot

Sly Stone’s lost utopia
When Sly Stone sang “Listen to the voices,” who could have known that, in just three years, voices of an entirely different sort would take him over?
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  June 12, 2007

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Singin’ the trues

Martina McBride shows what she’s got
I’d be lying if I said I’ve liked every song I’ve ever heard Martina McBride do.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  May 22, 2007

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Mary Weiss

Dangerous Game | Norton
“I don’t write hits,” sings Mary Weiss on her first — at 58 — solo album.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  May 18, 2007

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Cool papa, hot mama

John Phillips’s solo album, Karen Dalton’s In My Own Time
Between Phil Spector’s becoming rock and roll’s first teen millionaire and the rock tycoons who emerged some decades later lies the rise of the hippie aristocrat.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  April 30, 2007

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Noncombatants

Two novels about the war at home
It’s perhaps understandable that what we think of as “the war novel” has become synonymous with stories set in the midst of combat.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  April 10, 2007

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Jerusalem Jane Doe

Yehoshua’s undead in Israel
Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua’s A Woman in Jerusalem is an odd, perplexing novel — but also shrewd and profound.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  March 27, 2007

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Dancing queen

A double dose of Kylie Minogue live
Every recording Kylie Minogue has made since her fabulous 2000 album Light Years has made me wonder why anybody still pays attention to Madonna.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  March 20, 2007

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Poetic license

Carla Bruni’s No Promises
For generations, moony adolescents have stoked their feelings of being sensitive and misunderstood by moping around reading poetry.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  February 20, 2007

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Hail and farewell

The OC , when it was good
The OC name-checked Michiko Kakutani and Julius Rosenberg; one character read Shirley Hazzard’s The Great Fire and another had a poster for Imitation of Life .
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  February 19, 2007

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Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone, Radio City Music Hall, February 3, 2007
Some years ago in these pages Mark Moses wrote that he couldn’t imagine there was ever a time when “My Girl” didn’t exist — even though he was born before the song was recorded.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  February 05, 2007

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Tough love

Vikram Chandra’s sprawling, dirty old town
Surveying New York City, a place he knows high and low, in Sweet Smell of Success , Burt Lancaster exclaims, “I love this dirty town.”
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  February 06, 2007

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Pulp free

Jarvis Cocker’s still Jarvis Cocker on Jarvis
During the heyday of the Kinks, Ray Davies wrote with compassion about people in small towns clinging to a faded way of life.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  January 29, 2007

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Bad-news bearers

The Drones’ fatal shore
There are echoes all across Gala Mill (ATP), the new album by the Australian band the Drones. The Drones, "I Don't Ever Want to Change" (mp3)
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  January 09, 2007

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Smart girls

Veronica Mars and 30 Rock go to the head of the class
In its third year, Veronica Mars , late of UPN, joins the new CW network as the most critically praised show on its roster.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  December 12, 2006

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More the mystery

Kate Atkinson’s fear of genre
What’s the big deal about Kate Atkinson? If you read the rapturous reviews of her previous novel, Case Histories , you’d conclude she had written an engrossing mystery that was, you know, more than just a mystery.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  December 05, 2006

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Import only

The Pipettes bring on the pop
Whether or not the Pipettes ever make good on the flabbergasting confidence and effrontery of their debut, We Are the Pipettes (an import on Memphis Industries), they’ve already earned themselves a dissident footnote in the history of girl-group pop.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  November 28, 2006

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Pulp friction

Charlotte Gainsbourg’s lush for life
Second-generation performers can remind us of their parents in all sorts of unexpected ways.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  November 20, 2006

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The wild bunch

Another triumph for the New York Dolls
One of the lies I tell myself is that some day I’ll care about the Rolling Stones as much as I care about the New York Dolls.
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  October 30, 2006

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Wet, hard, and dreaming

Lost Girls   is evangelical about the erotic  
Being both elegant and explicit, refined and raunchy, Lost Girls aims to obliterate the idea that there’s a difference between pornography and erotica. Slideshow: Images from Lost Girls  
By CHARLES TAYLOR  |  September 22, 2006
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