Q&A: Errol Morris on his John le Carré documentary 'The Pigeon Tunnel' John le Carré, whose birth name was David Cornwell, died in 2020 The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2023
What to stream this week: The Rolling Stones, John le Carré, 'Living for the Dead' and Harry Bosch This week’s new entertainment releases include a Rolling Stones album, a revealing documentary about spy novelist John le Carré and “Living for the Dead,” a new Hulu series that's like “Queer Eye” meets “Ghost Hunters.” The Independent UK · Oct 16, 2023
The Secret Life of John le Carré by Adam Sisman review – the constant philanderer Three years after le Carré’s death, his official biographer reveals the adultery that was off limits during his lifetime. Does it further our appreciation of his work? The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2023
The Secret Life of John le Carré by Adam Sisman review – the spy who loved me A chronicle of the author’s many affairs unable to be published during his lifetime The Guardian - UK · Oct 11, 2023
The Pigeon Tunnel review – inside the extraordinary life of John le Carré Errol Morris’s gentle interview allows the mesmeric writer to hold forth on how his relationship with dodgy dad Ronnie informed his life as a spy and novelist The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2023
Author Mick Herron: ‘I’d have made an awful spy. I don’t have a smartphone or wifi’ As he publishes a new standalone novel, the spotlight-shunning author of the Slow Horses books talks about politics, time-travel and identity-swapping The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2023
Top 10 female spies in fiction Women’s role in espionage, largely written by women, leans less on explosions and more on perception, nuance and explorations of sacrifice – though they still kick ass The Guardian - UK · Aug 23, 2023
Robert Gottlieb, celebrated editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, has died at 92 Gottlieb, whose work helped shape the modern publishing canon, edited fiction by future Nobel laureates, spy novels by John le Carré, essays by Nora Ephron and Caro's nonfiction epics. WEKU · Jun 14, 2023
The Night Manager: rumoured season two release date, plot, cast, streaming The popular spy thriller starring Tom Hiddleston may be returning soon Liverpool Echo · Apr 25, 2023
The 100 best TV shows of all time Here are the greatest TV shows ever made... find out what tops the list. WhatToWatch · Mar 24, 2023
A Private Spy audiobook review – the letters of John le Carré David Harewood and Florence Pugh narrate this incisive collection, edited by the author’s son The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2023
Second John le Carré biography to reveal secrets held back while author was alive The Secret Life of John le Carré by Adam Sisman, who published an authorised biography in 2015, promises ‘a hidden life of secrecy, passion and betrayal’ The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2023
Bad Sex Award cancelled, but John Le Carré’s still a winner Judges say a tell-all memoir about the spy writer would have won this year Evening Standard · Dec 9, 2022
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 review – missives accomplished An extraordinary collection of his letters reveals the secretive spy novelist’s loves and laments The Guardian - UK · Oct 27, 2022
The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2022 A Private Spy, edited by Tim Cornwell; The Secret Heart by Suleika Dawson review – John le Carré laid bare An enjoyable collection of le Carré’s letters reveals a tetchy but warm man who strove to keep his books topical, while a former lover’s memoir leaves little unsaid
The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2022 ‘The Russian Bond is on his way’: exclusive extracts from the letters of John le Carré Former spy David Cornwell, best known as John le Carré, was a bestselling novelist but also a prolific letter-writer. Here we publish extracts from his correspondence with Alec Guinness, Graham Greene, Tom Stoppard and others
The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2022 ‘Each envelope was a treasure’: how I became le Carré’s friend and reader We communicated by hand-delivered letters, occasionally accompanied by a manuscript
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2022 Mastermind’s Gestapo origins, immortal sitcoms and the birth of reality TV: 100 years of the BBC, part six From ‘Basil!’ to ‘lovely jubbly’, welcome to the age of the classic sitcom – and the dawn of a new genre where nothing was off the table apart from ‘making love and going to the lavatory’
The Independent UK · Jul 27, 2022 Barack Obama shares his 2022 summer reading list Former president recommends 14 books in a wide variety of categories
The Independent UK · Jul 26, 2022 Barack Obama issues his 2022 summer reading list Former president recommends 14 books in a wide variety of categories
The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2022 Leave No Traces review – dense, detailed reconstruction of the killing of a Polish teen An account of a murder in early 1980s Warsaw by communist-era police mixes John le Carré-ish intrigue with a documentary-like detachment
Tribune News Service · Jun 4, 2022 Stephen L. Carter: Supreme Court’s leak investigation is self-destructive In “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” — John le Carré’s classic novel about the hunt for a traitor near the top of British Intelligence — the hero, George Smiley, tells a colleague that “the art” of being a mole “is to be one of a crowd.” The greater the number of…
The Guardian - UK · Jun 2, 2022 First editions annotated by Le Carré and Mantel to be auctioned Other writers who have added handwritten thoughts for sale in support of English PEN include Ian McEwan and Margaret Atwood
Bristol Post · Apr 18, 2022 Reaction as JK Rowling missed from Queen's Platinum Jubilee author list Dr Liam Fox says brands omission as "disgraceful and cowardly"
The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2022 Top 10 novels about postwar Germany Writers from John le Carré to Heinrich Böll and Bernard Schlink explore how the guilt and traumas of war are passed down to succeeding generations