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

Boffins and other Backroom Boys

Highlighting the importance of scientists and engineers in defeating Germany is the noble aim of Paul Kennedy's new book, but ultimately he goes too far

February 25, 2013

Books·Military

Thomas and the Fat Controllers

Many in the 1970s predicted the demise of the railway. A new book by Richard Faulkner and Chris Austin tells how the foresight of a select few saved the trains

February 25, 2013

Books·Transport·UK Politics

From Russia, With Erudition

Mikhail Shishkin's new novel — the first to arrive in English — is ambitious, complicated and protean. And brilliant

February 25, 2013

Books·Literature

A Novelist With Ice In His Heart

J.M. Coetzee is a curiously chilly author and his Kafkaesque new novel is a parable about the writer's place in a world ruled by cold rationalism

February 25, 2013

Books·Literature

ONLINE ONLY: Shelf Life

The Pleasure of Thinking is a window on the eclectic library and well-oiled mind of Theodore Dalrymple

February 1, 2013

Books·Literature

A pithy retelling of Europe’s darkest days

Norman Stone's new history of World War Two Manages to cover the conflict comprehensively in fewer than 200 pages

December 17, 2012

Books·History

Master and Commander

Churchill and Sea Power by Christopher M Bell exonerates the wartime Prime Minister of his alleged military mistakes

December 17, 2012

Books·History·Military

1878 And All That

George Weigel's attempt to codify a new Evangelical Catholicism is controversial and idiosyncratic, but has plenty to commend it

December 17, 2012

Books·The Catholic Church

Poet, Politician and Schemer

Too often Thomas Wyatt's poetry is ignored in favour of biography, but not in Susan Brigden's fantastic new study

December 17, 2012

Books

Posthumous Wisdom

A prodigious command of English, ingenious playfulness, an obsessive eye for detail: David Foster Wallace's essays trump his novels

December 17, 2012

Books·Literature

A Tragic Loss of Artistic Talent

Mirabel and Hugh Cecil's In Search of Rex Whistler is a fine tribute to a major artist cut down in his prime

December 17, 2012

Art·Books

The Old Men Who Made Paint Itself Expressive

It is rare for great artists to keep producing well into old age. Two biographies of Titian and Cézanne reveal masters who saved their best until last

November 28, 2012

Art·Books

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