Skip to content

Charlotte Allen

Charlotte Allen has a PhD in medieval studies from the Catholic University of America. She has written frequently for the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and First Things.

Twitter
Website
10 Posts

Didion in El Salvador

Didion in El Salvador

There is a special kind of practical information that the visitor to El Salvador acquires immediately, the way visitors to other places acquire information about the currency rates, the hours for the museums. In El Salvador one learns that vultures go first for the soft tissue, for the eyes, the

Charlotte Allen

11 Feb 2022 · 16 min read

Brutal and Unreformed—Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Straw Dogs’ at 50

Brutal and Unreformed—Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Straw Dogs’ at 50

Charlotte Allen

15 Dec 2021 · 32 min read

Twilight of the Satyrs

Twilight of the Satyrs

Charlotte Allen

11 Aug 2021 · 27 min read

Mailer and the Second Wavers

Mailer and the Second Wavers

Charlotte Allen

22 Mar 2021 · 30 min read

Requiem for a Female Serial Killer—A Review

Requiem for a Female Serial Killer—A Review

Charlotte Allen

8 Dec 2020 · 19 min read

Deception and Complicity—the Strange Case of Jessica Krug

Deception and Complicity—the Strange Case of Jessica Krug

Charlotte Allen

25 Sep 2020 · 8 min read

Flannery O'Connor and the Ideological War on Literature

Flannery O'Connor and the Ideological War on Literature

Charlotte Allen

17 Aug 2020 · 12 min read

The Fight over Alternative Education

The Fight over Alternative Education

Charlotte Allen

23 May 2020 · 15 min read

Higher Education's Medievalist Moral Panic

Higher Education's Medievalist Moral Panic

Charlotte Allen

22 Oct 2019 · 12 min read

Tolkien—A Review

Tolkien—A Review

Charlotte Allen

24 May 2019 · 6 min read