John Le Carre

Spies, Washington and Hollywood – Tom on Gorilla Radio

Chris Cook invited me back on Gorilla Radio to continue our conversation on all things spy-related. We talked about some of the differences between the British and American intelligence agencies, the role John Le Carré plays in the British spy fiction landscape, the new film American Made and how to spot which films are sponsored by government agencies. (Read more...)

Spies Like Us: A Conversation With John le Carré and Ben MacIntyre

-by Valley GirlI lived in England for 10 years, a good while back-- 1975- 1986. I was in Cambridge as an academic. And, I lived with a Welshman, a Cambridge don. He was the first person ever from his small town in Wales, Merthyr Tydfil to be accepted to the University of Cambridge. Many Americans I knew, but not in my department, managed to live in Cambridge within the American bubble.

The splendid piece on John le Carré is part of an embarrassment of riches in the new NYRB

The new NYRB has a terrific review-essay by Neal Ascherson on John le Carré, described by his new biographer, Adam Sisman, as "one of the most important English writers of the post-war period." To me this kind of understates le Carré's importance as a writer, but hey, that's me.by KenThe new (October 13) issue of The New York Review of Books was in the mailbox yesterday, and such free time as I've had since then has been heavily absorbed by an issue overf

AMID THE HACKING SPREE IN THE USSA, CHINA LAUNCHES A QUANTUM ...

5/5 (10) Many readers here sent versions of the story that China launched the world's first quantum communications satellite, and the timing could not have been more interesting. Indeed, in my opinion, China's launch of this…
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