Brooke Allen is a literary critic, essayist, and author known for her wide-ranging reviews of fiction and literary history. She contributed book reviews and cultural essays to The Weekly Standard between 2004 and 2017, covering subjects from classic literature to contemporary fiction. Her work has also appeared in publications such as The New Criterion, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal.
Paul Veyne, the great French historian of the ancient world and a professor at the Collège de France since 1975, has declared Palmyra, Pompeii, and Ephesus to be the three most extraordinary archaeological sites in the world. Among the three, though, the prize would probably have to go to Palmyra,…
Edgar Allan Poe, whose bicentennial we celebrate this year, holds a troubled and unique place in our national literature.
Katherine Anne Porter
Edith Wharton
A Study in Greene
A Temple of Texts
F.R. Leavis
Little Black Book of Stories
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