Brooke Allen

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Reviewing Janet Malcolm's book on Gertrude Stein and her long-time companion Alice B. Toklas, in which Malcolm comes close to declaring Stein an artistic fraud.

Literary Companions

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Brooke Allen reviews two biographies of a man we thought we knew, Samuel Johnson.

First Man of Letters

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Nearly two centuries after her death, Jane Austen's very name has become a global brand.

Celebrity Jane

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All evidence to the contrary, we continue to believe, deep in our hearts, that the Founders’ “We the People” meant all the people, not just the propertied white men.