Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
I've never read a John Le Carré novel. Ever. Not even that precious weathered copy of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (retrofitted with a photograph of Richard Burton from the film adaptation) acquired in one of the numerous raddii shop runs years ago. But I've been aware of the adventures of George Smiley and of the film adaptations including The Russia House starring Sean Connery. pinter (centre),...
H5N1 (Free subscription) | yesterday
At Salon, Glenn Greenwald is following the story through twists and turns worthy of a John Le Carré thriller.
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
You can read about the fictional exploits of spies, saboteurs and terrorists in the works of, say, Ian Fleming, John Le Carre and Alan Furst. But if you'd like to sample eye-opening accounts of the real thing, try these:
Westminster Wisdom (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
What unites Niccola Machiavelli, Edward Gibbon, John Le Carre, Austin Woolrych and Cicero? Obviously their high intelligence- but there is something else. Machiavilli, Gibbon, Le Carre and Cicero all share two characteristics- all of them are cultural figures, all of them are cultural figures who have said something important about humanity and none of them originally worked in the humanities. Machiavelli...
UK Commentators (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
He's the media head from Liverpool Uni who recommends leaving presents out for burglars and hiding your school uniform while walking home in London. Here he takes a page to say about the dreadful torture/murder of two French students what John le Carre could say in two short sentences . Professor Canter's personal anti-crime initiative doesn't consist of not crossing estates or leaving out presents...
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
John le Carré’s son, Nick Harkaway, doesn’t want to live in his father’s shadow—-and after this honest essay he intends to get right down to doing that. The secret answer, apparently, as it is all other problems in life, involves Ninjas. What book do you write if your father has a famous name? Your own. I [...]
London Walks (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
2.30 pm on Saturdays from Piccadilly Circus Tube (meet by the Clydesdale Bank, outside the subway 3 exit) Espionage was the hot end of the cold war Spies London is peopled with Ian Fleming's James Bond and John Le Carre's George Smiley. But it's also the London of the genuine article. The London where for over 40 years Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt and the mysterious fifth man infiltrated the British...
Contemporary Nomad (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
It’s a few weeks old, but I just came across this bit in the Guardian: Francesca Martin Wednesday June 4, 2008 John le Carré’s hit thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is to hit the big screen. The author, whose real name is David Cornwall, is at work with the scriptwriter Peter Morgan on a film adaptation of the [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Moscow - To use the words of John Le Carre, Russia has 'come in from the cold'... new President Dmitry Medvedev declared in the first of two major foreign policy speeches building to his debut at the G8 summit. His words rang softly on the ears of...
Positive Liberty (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Say what you will about the Cold War, it was fertile soil for entertainment ranging from the literary spy novels of John le Carré to the merely literate but vastly more popular spy novels of Ian Fleming. Back when Sean Connery wasn’t just the best James Bond but the only James Bond and Constant [...]
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Alan Furst writes elegant, atmospheric spy novels set in continental Europe in the 1930s and early '40s: He owns the pre-World War II period as completely as John le Carré owns the Cold War.
Euro Crime (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
From the Guardian : John le Carré's hit thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is to hit the big screen. The author, whose real name is David Cornwall, is at work with the scriptwriter Peter Morgan on a film adaptation of the novel, first published in 1974 as the first instalment in a trilogy about cold war spies. To be produced by Working Title - the production company behind most of the British film...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
There were whispers of nepotism when this debut novel by John le Carré's son was bought for a reputed £300,000 last year. But on reading this magnificent, sprawling, epic work, it's clear it was published on its own merits, and is probably worth considerably more than the amount Heinemann paid for it.
The Two Malcontents (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
By Reuben F. Johnson Kiev IN THE 1990 FILM adaptation of John le Carré’s The Russia House, Katya (Michelle Pfeiffer) gives the English book publisher played by Sean Connery her take on how little the perestroika (economic restructuring) and glasnost (openness of expression) policies of the Gorbachev era have actually done for the country.Unable to [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
June 4: John le Carré's hit thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is to hit the big screen
