Charlotte Allen

19 Posts

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.

Adrien Brody as architect László Tóth is looking down at the camera, smoking, surrounded by sparks.

Architecture as Revenge

Charlotte Allen 3 Feb 2025 · 15 min read

Denzel Washington in Roman costume. He is a middle-aged black man with close cropped hair wearing robes and jewelle

Games and Thrones

Charlotte Allen 4 Dec 2024 · 13 min read

A woman in a yellow coat stands in front of a row of lockers. She is attractive, fifties, carries an expensive handbag.

All Hail the New Flesh

Charlotte Allen 1 Nov 2024 · 11 min read

Blonde on Blonde

Charlotte Allen 18 Oct 2024 · 32 min read

France’s Founding Fathers: A Review of ‘House of Lilies’

Charlotte Allen 26 Jun 2024 · 20 min read

A still of Anne Wiazemsky and Jean-Pierre Leaud in Le Chinoise. They are sitting at a table reading and smoking cigarettes.

Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part II: Fanaticism and Failure (1966–2022)

Charlotte Allen 16 Apr 2024 · 36 min read

A woman and two men, snapping their fingers. Image from Band à Part (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)

Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part I: Abstraction Hero (1930–65)

Charlotte Allen 10 Apr 2024 · 33 min read

Chaucer’s Bawdy Broad

Charlotte Allen 20 Jun 2023 · 24 min read

Scenes from a Marriage

Charlotte Allen 18 Jan 2023 · 70 min read

Didion in El Salvador

Charlotte Allen 11 Feb 2022 · 17 min read

Brutal and Unreformed

Charlotte Allen 15 Dec 2021 · 33 min read

Twilight of the Satyrs

Charlotte Allen 11 Aug 2021 · 28 min read

Mailer and the Second Wavers

Charlotte Allen 22 Mar 2021 · 31 min read

Requiem for a Female Serial Killer—A Review

Charlotte Allen 8 Dec 2020 · 20 min read

Deception and Complicity—the Strange Case of Jessica Krug

Charlotte Allen 25 Sep 2020 · 9 min read