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

Interregnum Interrogator

God's Instruments is a coherent, elegant collection of essays that confirms Blair Worden as one of our finest historians of the English civil wars
May 29, 2012
No Life Was Untouched

No Life Was Untouched

Christy Campbell's focused, meticulous account of the V-weapon campaign of 1944 provides a neat counterpoint to the magisterial grand narrative of Antony Beevor's The Second World War
May 29, 2012
Editorial image for "Jihad Central" — As Robert S. Leiken argues in his brilliant new book, Britain's lost…

Jihad Central

As Robert S. Leiken argues in his brilliant new book, Britain's lost confidence in nationhood has made it the centre of European jihadism
April 24, 2012
Editorial image for "Truths Stranger Than Fiction" — Lionel Shriver's new novel brilliantly describes the problems of…

Truths Stranger Than Fiction

Lionel Shriver's new novel brilliantly describes the problems of on-the-spot reportage, a journalistic difficulty negotiated deftly in two recent books about The Troubles
April 24, 2012
Editorial image for "Never a Dull Verse" — Clive James's new collection of poetry looks at his past but is far from…

Never a Dull Verse

Clive James's new collection of poetry looks at his past but is far from mournful nostalgia; it celebrates his eventful life
April 24, 2012
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