Film: Our Kind of Traitor
John le Carré’s Our Kind of Traitor is one of his later, perhaps lesser books, but it’s one that really spoke to me, so I was eager to see it adapted to …
Novel: A Delicate Truth by John le Carré
Late in John le Carré’s new novel A Delicate Truth (2013) comes a passage that, for me anyway, illustrates a thematic difference between his more recent books and his earlier …
Novel: Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré
John le Carré is the preeminent spy novelist of our time, and easily my favorite writer. His more recent works are sometimes treated dismissively — primarily, it seems to me, …