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Book reviews and literary criticism from Standpoint, from 2008 to the present.

Lucky Jim and La Longue Durée

In a short and ambitious book The History Manifesto, Jo Guldi and David Armitage explore the human condition and who we will become

October 28, 2014

Books·History

Quirks of a Great Queen

An excellent new biography on Queen Victoria shows she remains a profound paradox

October 28, 2014

Books·History

The Fog of War Lifts on Waterloo

Two new and remarkable books prove how Waterloo will continue to divide historians for centuries

October 28, 2014

Books·History

How Conspiracy Theories Take Off

Adam Zomoyski's Phantom Terrors is timely, as well as elegantly written

October 28, 2014

Books·Politics

Spanish Lies

Paul Preston's exhaustive and admirable biography shines light on Santiago Carrillo, a relatively unknown figure, who played a key role in the restoration of Spanish democracy

October 28, 2014

Books·Europe

Presidential Imperialism

F.H Buckley's The Once and Future King is a worthy contribution to the great discourse on liberty and power

October 28, 2014

Books·US Politics

The Leaning Tower of Dresden

In his epic novel 'The Tower' Uwe Tellkamp brilliantlydepicts the grotesque idiosyncrasies of the GDR’s bureaucracy

October 28, 2014

Books·Germany

A poet casts a prosaic die

John Fuller's new volume of prose poems are grimmer and harder to read than his previous works

October 28, 2014

Books·Literature

The Enlightenment on Horseback

Andrew Roberts’s account of the life 'Napoleon the Great' is magisterial and beautifully written

September 23, 2014

Books·History

A Role Model for Boris

Vincent Azoulay's biography of Pericles is written with precision and avoids clichés

September 23, 2014

Books·Literature

Triumph of the Will

A new work brings into striking contrast the personalities of Stalin himself and the other members of the Soviet elite in his time

September 23, 2014

Books·History

Poland’s Grand Panjandrum

It is hard to engage seriously with Adam Michnik's scattered collection of essays

September 23, 2014

Books·Poland

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