Brooke Allen

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Brooke Allen | The New Criterion

Nov 20, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Brooke Allen

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‘The Wildes’ Review: Oscar and Family

Sep 13, 2024 | wsj.com | Brooke Allen

With “The Wildes,” the novelist Louis Bayard has posed himself a considerable challenge. First, much of the story is told from a woman’s perspective: not an easy exercise for many male authors but one that Mr. Bayard has already, with his novels “Courting Mr. Lincoln” (2019) and “Jackie & Me” (2022), performed with success. More daringly, he has set himself the task of writing dialogue for Oscar Wilde, the most quotable wit of the past couple of centuries.
Robert Louis Stevenson Loved Her. Many of His Friends Did Not.

Aug 20, 2024 | nytimes.com | Brooke Allen

She herself was tough as rawhide. Hailing from Indianapolis, the state capital but still not much more than a frontier town, she had married an unreliable charmer at 17 and accompanied him to the silver mines of Nevada, where he failed to make a fortune and they shivered in a canvas and cardboard shanty.
List of SpaceX Starlink launches for August 2024

Jul 31, 2024 | earthsky.org | Brooke Allen

Spaceflight Starlink Group 10-6: August 2, 2024, 12:19 a.m. EDTFalcon 9 Block 5 | Kennedy Space Center, Florida | TIME AND DATE MAY CHANGEStarlink Group 11-1: August 4, 2024, 12:00 a.m. PDTFalcon 9 Block 5 | Vandenberg Space Force Base, California | TIME AND DATE MAY CHANGEYou can watch a livestream of the Starlink launches on SpaceX’s X account.
Silversmith & tastemaker

Jul 25, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Victor Davis Hanson |Gary Saul Morson |Hilton Kramer |Brooke Allen

In 1851, when the precocious silversmith Edward C. Moore began designing for Tiffany & Co., the industrial barons who patronized the fine-wares industry still preferred toothless Hellenistic imitation and the safety of Rococo nostalgia. By 1891, when Moore’s reign as chief designer ended, Tiffany & Co. had brought Islamic-style ornament to the American masses, mastered the art of Japanese patination, and designed firearms with Smith & Wesson.
Ghosts of the great

Jul 24, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Gary Saul Morson |Hilton Kramer |Victor Davis Hanson |Brooke Allen

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered by Andrew Roberts at the House of Lords on July 23, 2024. My Lords, it would be churlish not to congratulate the Labour Party on its stunning victory on the fourth of July and unpatriotic not to wish the Government luck and a fair wind.
Ronald S. Lauder receives The New Criterion’s 2024 Edmund Burke Award

Jul 24, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Gary Saul Morson |Hilton Kramer |Victor Davis Hanson |Brooke Allen

Watch the 2024 Edmund Burke Award recipient, Ronald S. Lauder, give remarks on “Protecting America’s promise” at The New Criterion’s annual gala. To view this exclusive video of 2024 Edmund Burke Award recipient Ronald S. Lauder’s discussion on “Protecting America’s promise,” become a member of The New Criterion’s Supporters Circle. For login details, please email [email protected].
Kamala Harris’s Michael Dukakis moment

Jul 23, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Hilton Kramer |Brooke Allen |Karen Wilkin |Gary Saul Morson

Americans over the age of fifty may remember the 1988 presidential election campaign, when Governor Michael Dukakis surged to a seventeen-point lead over Vice President George H. W. Bush following the Democratic National Convention in mid-July. That was a successful convention for Democrats. They were united and eager to take back the White House after suffering for eight years under the Reagan–Bush administration.
The Critic’s Notebook

Jul 23, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Hilton Kramer |Brooke Allen |Karen Wilkin |Gary Saul Morson

Nonfiction: This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America’s Revolutionary War in the South, by Alan Pell Crawford (Knopf): In 1775, Edmund Burke identified one source of Southern defiance when he observed that, in a society with such “vast multitudes of slaves” as were held in Virginia and the Carolinas, “those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.” By the time of the Civil War, of course, that pride had devolved into Confederate intransigence—leading many...
Step & repeat | The New Criterion

Jul 19, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Hilton Kramer |Brooke Allen |Gary Saul Morson |Karen Wilkin

Inchoateness is not usually an aspiration for artistic performance, but Dorrance Dance makes such incipience its métier. For the opening of Shift., a new work premiering this week at the Joyce Theater, seven tap dancers amble onto an empty stage with the house lights up, the backdrop raised, and the audience still chattering. They look as though they are there for a warmup, wearing sweats, talking to one another, doing a step here and there, oblivious to the audience’s presence.