Brooke Allen has written for many magazines and journals, including The New Criterion, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, Atlantic, The Hudson Review, The Nation, and The Wilson Quarterly. Two collections of her essays and reviews have been published: Twentieth-Century Attitudes: Literary Powers in Uncertain Times (2003) and Artistic License: Three Centuries of Good Writing and Bad Behavior (2004). She is also the author of Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers (2006), The Other Side of the Mirror: An American Travels in Syria (2011) and Benazir Bhutto: Favored Daughter (2016). She is a contributing editor at The Hudson Review and writes a film column for the journal. She previously taught Literature at Bennington College, and continues to teach in the Bennington Prison Education Initiative.