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

The Dreyfus Affair Of Our Age

Salman Rushdie's account of the life under a fatwa highlights the moral cowardice of establishment figures of the Left and the Right

October 23, 2012

Books·Literature

Blood and Lies Behind the Iron Curtain

Anne Applebaum's magisterial Iron Curtain tells the largely untold story of Eastern Europe's suppression at the hands of the Soviets after the Second World War

September 25, 2012

Books·Communism·Europe·History

From Jesus Sect to Imperial Faith

Two new works by Geza Vermes and Peter Brown eloquently and enthusiastically chart the progress of Christianity from Jesus Christ to the height of the Byzantine empire

September 25, 2012

Books·Faith·The Catholic Church

Illuminating Scripture

The philosophical basis to Hebrew scripture solves the false dichotomy of faith and reason, according to Yoram Hazony's new book

September 25, 2012

Books·Faith

Middlebrow Tudoriana

Peter Ackroyd's Tudors is a pedestrian chronicle of the fascinating age of Reformation

September 25, 2012

Books·History

Mazower’s New World Order

Reading Mark Mazower is like being lectured by the best left-wing lecturer you'll ever have: he is brilliant but tiresome

September 25, 2012

Books·Global Governance

Seeing is Believing

The narrative of Will Gompertz's history of modern art faithfully follows the Serota tendency, claiming modern art always trumps that which it supplanted

September 25, 2012

Art·Books