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

Russia’s Teetering Toughman

Ben Judah's rich and thoughtful account of the Putin years charts a Russian political system continually manipulated by a wounded leader

May 29, 2013

Books·Russia

Spurning Old Truths

The Taste of Ashes by Marci Shore is a history typical of a modern, intellectual "non-Jewish" Jew, which downplays the impact of the Holocaust

May 29, 2013

Books·Communism·History

Death’s Heads

Christian Ingrao's analysis of university-educated SS members is dense but compelling, drawing blurred lines that demarcate good and evil

May 28, 2013

Books·History

Hard Lessons of Afghan History

Two new histories of separate conflicts in Afghanistan show that both the Victorians and a young Churchill struggled at the North-Western Frontier

May 28, 2013

Afghanistan·Books

Reform, That You May Preserve

The Great Reform Bill of 1832 nearly sparked a revolution. Antonia Fraser's history tells the story with tremendous verve

May 28, 2013

Books·History

When a Marxist Loses His Charm

The uruguayan Eduardo Galeano was once the author of elegant and charming journalism. Sadly, his new book is a dumbed-down travesty

May 28, 2013

Books·History·Latin America·Literature

Nourishment by the Gross

Big Brother is Lionel Shriver at her cold-eyed best; a nourishing helping of fearless, humane and sober prose

May 28, 2013

Books·Literature

Why Was There No Holy Roman Project?

Brendan Simms's new epic history of Europe is an earnest and old-fashioned of great power rivalries

April 22, 2013

Books·Europe·History·International

Constitutional Ignoramus

In attempting to answer his question Why Tolerate Religion, Chicago philosopher Brian Leiter wilfully neglects the impact of the Judaeo-Christian tradition on Western civilisation

April 22, 2013

Books·Constitutional Affairs·Faith·US Politics

High-Minded Or Hot Air?

At times in Levels of Life, Julian Barnes at his dizzying best—it is writing from his informed, proud and devoted heart

April 22, 2013

Books·Literature

Past Times of a Present Master

Underrated American author James Salter's latest novel, at its best, evokes Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Tolstoy

April 22, 2013

Books·Literature

What To Do With the Huddled Masses?

David Goodhart's The British Dream isn't a scintillating read, but it is a thoughtful articulation of the UK's changing attitudes to immigration

March 26, 2013

Books·Immigration

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