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Art, books, music, theatre and criticism from Standpoint. Criticism as argument, not consumer advice.

A Right Way to Live and Die

James Salter is seeing something of a renaissance of late. His elegantly written Collected Stories confirms him as a writer of moving and humane prose

June 25, 2013

Books·Literature

From Kitsch to Cool: Picasso and Modern Art

Marxist art historians cherish his Cubism, but he later became a true artist, not just a modernist

June 24, 2013

Art·Critique

ONLINE ONLY: A Lost Way of Life

Adam Nicolson's Gentry is a superb survey of the 600-year rise and fall of a class of landed Englishmen

June 4, 2013

Books·History·Social Affairs

Bernard Hailstone: The Artist And His Sitter

In 1945, Bernard Hailstone painted my father, the journalist Louis Heren, in the Burmese jungle. This is the story of their long friendship

May 29, 2013

Art·Drawing Board

Can Science Replace Religion In Our Lives?

That materialists and ministers struggle to justify morality shows there is still a place for Christianity in intellectual and public life

May 29, 2013

Critique·Faith·Science

More Things in Heaven and Earth

In philosophical circles, it was once heresy to challenge Darwinian reductionism. That is now changing

May 29, 2013

Critique·Faith

For Her, It Was Always a Question of Honour

Two major biographies of Margaret Thatcher — one vivid and concise, the other magisterial — are essential reading for anyone who cares about the Iron Lady

May 29, 2013

Books·UK Politics