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

The Promised Land?

Balfour & Weizmann: The Zionist, the Zealot and the Declaration which Changed the World by Geoffrey Lewis'A Senseless, Squalid War': Voices from Palestine 1945-1948 by Norman RoseOne State, Two States: Resolving the

June 25, 2009

Books·History·Israel·Judaism·Middle East

Not Tonight, Pauline

Venus of Empire: The Life of Pauline Bonaparte by Flora Fraser

June 25, 2009

Books·France·History·Literature

The Friend who Failed

Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing by Steven J. Zipperstein

June 25, 2009

Books·Literature

Men on the Menu

An Intellectual History of Cannibalism by Catalin Avramescu

June 25, 2009

Academia·Books·Philosophy

Swallowing the Party Line

The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers

June 25, 2009

Books·Communism·Espionage·Literature·Russia

From Job to the Enlightenment

Susan Neiman’s reading of the Enlightenment is certainly distinctive, but also offers a courageous and uplifting attempt to tell the story as it is Our idea of modernity is in many ways

June 25, 2009

Critique·Faith·Philosophy

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The usual hotchpotch at the RA Summer Exhibition and some awful Americana from Charles Saatchi

June 24, 2009

Art

Demons in the Details

Hollywood and physics should be kept apart — pretty much like matter and anti-matter

June 24, 2009

Cosmos·Film·Science

Exile on Jermyn Street

Blacklisted by Hollywood, my father Carl Foreman made a new life in Britain. But he never forsook the country of his birth, says Jonathan Foreman Funerals feel more natural in the winter.

June 23, 2009

Communism·Features·Film·US Politics