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Back in the ‘80s, before I became an entertainment journalist, I worked my way through university at a video distributor, ...
A work by John le Carré is like an intimate conversation at a club, say, or a restaurant: anecdotes well told, then brilliantly expanded; "entertaining" is barely a good enough word for it. His ...
"The Pigeon Tunnel," a new Apple TV+ documentary from Erroll Morris reveals that John le Carré had a life that filled with betrayals and surprising twists — like his spy novels.
John le Carré, the British spy novelist behind dozens of works including The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, has died at 89 in Cornwall, England.
British novelist John le Carré, who anatomized Cold War spycraft and sometimes even influenced it, has died after a short illness at the age of 89. John le Carré dead: Transcendent spy novelist ...
John le Carré’s archive saves his children a £1.5m tax bill as family expands his world on screen and page - The master of spy fiction’s archive officially classed as cultural heritage.
By John le Carré. In August of 1961, a 30-year-old British intelligence agent named David Cornwell looked on with “disgust and terror” as the Berlin Wall went up.
David Cornwell, aka John le Carré, claimed his multiple infidelities were a ‘drug’ for his writing – but the discovery of them sent a planned biography off the rails. Robert McCrum asks ...
When John le Carré died last year at 89, he had published 25 novels over the span of six decades, and he was still writing. He left one complete, full-length novel behind. Viking, his publisher ...
When John le Carré contemplated writing an autobiography, he hired two detectives to investigate his life. “I’m a liar,” the spy-turned-novelist told them. “Born to lying, bred to it ...