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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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Cover girls

Cat Power and Shelby Lynne
On Cat Power’s second album of covers, she might be traveling the same territory Elvis did in “Kentucky Rain” — a country road with low clouds on a chill, gray afternoon.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  February 04, 2008
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Tough thrill

Household justice
People who love this book tend to talk as if reading it were experiencing something terrible and necessary.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  December 31, 2007
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Nerd noir

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ’s Black Dossier
This volume, the first published solely as a graphic novel, is the comic as fetish object.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  December 03, 2007
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Covering Dylan

From Newport to I’m Not There
Dylan is his own cover band.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  November 20, 2007
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Superbad: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Lakeshore
Teen movies have long used the funkiest black music to throw into relief the shenanigans of the nerdiest white guys.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  September 05, 2007
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Star power

Deneuve demystifies — and enchants
Deneuve has been in the public eye long enough to know that only damn fools reveal themselves to the public.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  August 07, 2007
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Fabulous fakes

Charmed by the Traveling Wilburys
If “The Basement Tapes” had been conceived for the Top 40, it might have sounded much like the Traveling Wilburys.
By: CHARLES TAYLOR  |  August 10, 2007
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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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