As Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest in 1956, a wave of refugees spread across the continent seeking safety. One of those was ...

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.

During this period, Cornwell rose early and wrote three novels under the pseudonym John le Carré: Call for the Dead, A Murder of Quality, and, in 1963, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.

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.

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 ...

I'm not a fan of labels, of categories. Le Carré is sometimes called a spy novelist. Rubbish. He's a novelist of the first ...

British author Nick Harkaway, son of John le Carre, poses for a photograph during an interview with The Associated Press, at his home, in London, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024.

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 ...

A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré; By John le Carré, edited by Tim Cornwell; Viking; 752 pp., $40.

John le Carré, whose birth name was David Cornwell, died in 2020. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation. Open Search. Fog icon. 75 ...