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EXPLAINED: John le carre - The Real Truth

British film-maker and director of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy who was described by Alec Guinness as having ‘balls behind the camera’

The Guardian - UK

Barack Obama launches new podcast about books that have shaped him. How many have you read?

The list includes works by Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, and John le Carré

The Independent UK

Barack Obama launches podcast about books that ‘shaped his worldview’

The former US president will host six episodes of A Great Book for Audible, discussing work from Toni Morrison and John le Carré to James Baldwin

The Guardian - UK

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Who’s in, who’s out, and how many have you read? The story behind our 100 best novels list

Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights. Ulysses or Catch-22 … Find out which title came top, as chosen by authors, critics and academics worldwide

The Guardian - UK

The rise of the literary nepo baby? The children of famous novelists on following in their parents’ footsteps

From Naomi Ishiguro to Jess Atwood Gibson, more children of high profile writers are becoming authors themselves. Parents and their literary offspring discuss the pressures of measuring up

The Guardian - UK

5 best shows to watch after 'The Night Agent' season 3

Raced through "The Night Agent" season 3 already? Here are the five spy thriller shows I'd recommend streaming next on Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV, and more.

Tom’s Guide

The Night Manager returns: The best John le Carré adaptations of the past 25 years

The return of The Night Manager makes it the perfect time to revisit the big and small screen adaptations of author John le Carré’s works – with a special focus on the spy thrillers of the past 25 years.

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The Night Manager season 2 is back and better than ever after 10 years — with an incredibly sexy new villain

After 10 years of waiting patiently, The Night Manager season 2 is back... and boy does it defy all expectations.

TechRadar

How To Watch The Night Manager Season 2 Online For Free From Anywhere

Tom Hiddleston is back for this prestige John le Carré adaptation and we explain how to watch The Night Manager Season 2 streams online and free from anywhere.

Cinemablend

The Night Manager creator on the 'fluid love triangle' at the heart of series two

David Farr discusses the return of Jonathan Pine and the ‘subtle homoerotic strain’ in John le Carré’s work

Evening Standard

Peacock Just Quietly Released A Sneakily Smart Cyberpunk Thriller With A Killer Premise

Don't sleep on this show. Here's why 'The Copenhagen Test' is worth your attention.

Inverse

Review: The British Spy Novelist Beloved by Fellow Spies

Tradecraft chronicles the career of John le Carré, intelligence officer turned author.

Reason

Charlie Hunnam Is Jumping From Serial Killers To John Le Carré's Spy-Verse For New Streaming Show

This is a sweet genre leap for the star.

Cinemablend

The Spy Who Came In From the Cold review: 'Propulsive, back-to-basics

4/5 John Le Carré’s classic Cold War novel is brought to the stage in thrillingly classic fashion

Evening Standard

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Diane Keaton obituary

Idiosyncratic American actor who starred in the film classics Annie Hall, The Godfather and Reds

The Guardian - UK

The story behind the spy stories: show reveals secrets of John le Carré’s craft

How author researched his plots and letters from Alec Guinness feature in Oxford exhibition

The Conversation

Le Carré, Bacchae and radical feminist punk art – what to see and watch this week

John le Carré was a master of the spy novel – not by glamorising espionage, but by stripping it of illusion. His stories abandoned the trope of the suave, heartless agent in favour of morally complex characters navigating the shadowy ethics of Cold War intelligence. Gritty, ambiguous and deeply human,…

The Independent UK

Inside the meticulous, marvellous mind of John le Carré

IN FOCUS: A new exhibition opens up the spy writer’s sprawling literary archive to shed light on his idiosyncratic creative process. Katie Rosseinsky explores how he brought George Smiley and co to life

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The Conversation

A new exhibition explores John le Carré’s writing process and what it says about his political conscience

To what do we owe our conscience? John le Carré once stated that all his fictional characters were, one way or another, navigating a world where duty to self is not necessarily duty to society.

The Guardian - UK

Nick Harkaway: ‘I loathed Charles Dickens – it nearly turned me off reading for ever’

The author on his secret theories about Tolkien, the most perfect and terrifying Moomin book, and how his father, John le Carré, inspired him

Tom’s Guide

I just found the most suspenseful spy thriller on Prime Video — and now I don’t think I can sleep tonight

The espionage thriller "A Most Wanted Man" marks the final leading role from legendary actor Philip Seymour Hoffman before his death in 2014

The Guardian - UK

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Novelist best known for Gorky Park and the series of thrillers that followed featuring the Soviet detective Arkady Renko

The Guardian - UK

John le Carré: the constant researcher

Brief letters: An embassy in West Germany | Norman Tebbit | Penis reduction | The Salt Path

The Guardian - UK

‘Like an academic’: private papers reveal John le Carré’s attention to detail

Exclusive: Oxford’s Bodleian libraries to put archive items on display for first time, celebrating spy author’s ‘tradecraft’

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine war has reignited ‘cold war strategies’, says John le Carré’s son

Nick Harkaway sees parallels with postwar period as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold comes to the West End

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