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Art, books, music, theatre and criticism from Standpoint. Criticism as argument, not consumer advice.
A new exhibition at the National Gallery brings together two radiant versions of Van Gogh's sunflowers.

Blooming Lovely

A new exhibition at the National Gallery brings together two radiant versions of Van Gogh’s sunflowers
December 17, 2013
How do racisms start?

A History of Blood Hatred

How do racisms start? Francisco Bethencourt’s study of racial prejudices since the Crusades does its best to answer the culturally sensitive question
November 27, 2013
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Their Own Worst Enemies

Their Own Worst Enemies

Jonathan Schanzer’s State of Failure persuasively argues that Palestine is not a country or state but a cause with the sole intention of destroying the Jews
November 25, 2013
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Liberty Here, Tyranny There

Liberty Here, Tyranny There

The apologetics over John Stuart Mill’s shocking attitudes towards foreigners is the only thing that lets down Georgios Varouxakis’s otherwise excellent study of the political philosopher You can make a passable case
November 25, 2013
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A new expanded edition of E.

Both Ancient and Avant-Garde

A new expanded edition of E.E. Cummings’s Collected Poems demonstrates that, despites his brief sojourns in the avant-garde, the poet always found his way to a profound simplicity A terrible crisis has
November 25, 2013
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He hates meaningless obscurity and a failure of logic in poems, and finds these faults in a great many of them.

A Visit From the Ofpoe Inspector

Craig Raine’s collected essays, More Dynamite, is a collection that blows holes in fellow poets’ work, and ends leaving the poetry landscape very battered and bleak Craig Raine has a passionate love
November 25, 2013
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