Anna Aslanyan
Music, Terror, Garlic Amulets
Julian Barnes’s ‘The Noise of Time’
Ladies’ Man Of Art
The formidable critic Dave Hickey turns 75 this month
Voice Of Dystopia
The Nobel laureate for literature Svetlana Alexievich gives voice to the voiceless
Russia’s not so Lovable Rogue
An account of Eduard Limonov’s adventurous life, that’s a bit too heavy on admiration
Mentioned in Dispatches
Letters from London and Europe by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, tranlated by J. G. Nichols
Can Kasparov Checkmate Putin?
On and off the chessboard, the ex-world champion is a fighter. Now the man who has led the struggle for Russian democracy talks to Standpoint
China has a strategy and Britain doesn’t
A roadmap to better relations requires realism. Beijing’s interests and goals are openly stated—if you know where to look
The plague
Standpoint goes to press as the pandemic rages. So too does the search for blame and the political fall-out
Defeat begets defeat for Britain’s cloth-eared Left
The censorious culture of the liberal Left is hostile to freedom of expression. The fate of the trans-rights movement evinces this pointless politics