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Book reviews and literary criticism from Standpoint, from 2008 to the present.
Daddy, I hardly knew you

Daddy, I hardly knew you

Linn Ullmann's novel Unquiet interweaves her childhood with conversations with her father Ingmar Bergman — a work of both memory and imagination
February 25, 2019
Miklós Bánffy's Transylvanian Trilogy is full of exceptional richness, character and colour.

Hungary’s Tolstoy

Miklós Bánffy's Transylvanian Trilogy is full of exceptional richness, character and colour
January 28, 2019
How baffling to know Mr Lear

How baffling to know Mr Lear

In her biography of Edward Lear, Sara Lodge engages with the contradictions at the heart of a man determined to both express and conceal himself
December 3, 2018
The Spy and the Traitor brings out with agonising clarity the danger that Oleg Gordievsky had voluntarily decided to run.

The spy who loved us

"The Spy and the Traitor brings out with agonising clarity the danger that Oleg Gordievsky had voluntarily decided to run"
December 3, 2018
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