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The New Criterion

It operates as a refuge for a civilizing element in short supply in contemporary America: honest criticism
- The Wall Street Journal

Author

Alexandra Mullen

Alexandra Mullen is an advisory editor at The Hudson Review.

Articles

Household names (Books) , May 2013, 78
A review of Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature by Alastair Fowler

Mining the ash heap (Features) , November 2012, 14
On Henry Mayhew's magnum opus, London Labour and the London Poor.

Ragtime pixies (Books) , June 2012, 81
A review of The Astaires: Fred & Adele by Kathleen Riley

Gigantic footprints (Books) , February 2012, 74
A review of On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling (Writers on Writers) by Michael Dirda

The artful Dickens (Features) , June 2010, 20
On Dickens's world & the world he created.

Sleuthing Conan Doyle (Features) , June 2008, 25
On The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Andrew Lycett and Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters edited by Jon Lellenberg.

Eminent essayists (Books) , April 2008, 75
On The Spirit of the Age: Victorian Essays, edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb.

Land of Cockayne (Books) , September 2007, 70
On Hubbub: Filth, Noise & Stench in England, 1600-1770 by Emily Cockayne.

Exhibition note (Art) , April 2007, 66
On "Victorian Bestsellers" at the Morgan Library, New York.

Dum dum da da (Books) , January 2007, 82
On Stephen Banfield's Jerome Kern.

Shorter notice (Books) , March 2006, 76
Liza Picard's "Victorian London: The Tale of a City" reviewed.

The soul of wit (Books) , June 2005, 95
A review of Ogden Nash: The Life & Work of America’s Laureate of Light Verse, by Douglas M. Parker.

Miss Pym disposes (Books) , May 2005, 85
A review of No Soft Incense: Barbara Pym and the Church, by Barbara Pym, edited by Hazel K. Bell.

Nothing shabby (Books) , February 2004, 79
A review of The Afterlife: Essays & Criticism, by Penelope Fitzgerald.

Beauty blasted (Books) , February 2003, 75
A review of Wilfred Owen , by Dominic Hibberd.

Step right up (Books) , May 2002, 76
A review of Inventing the Victorians, by Matthew Sweet.

Gulliver among swans (Books) , September 2001, 115
A review of Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller by Jackie Wullschlager




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