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John le Carré

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  • Saturday, 19 December, 2020
    John le Carré: shining a light into dusty corners

    His spy novels excelled at capturing ‘the last beat of the secret English heart’

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    FT Books Essay
    Simon Schama on what makes John le Carré a writer of substance

    The spy fiction master ventured well beyond the shadows of espionage to become one of the most perceptive and enduring writers of his age

  • Tuesday, 15 December, 2020
    ReviewBooks
    John le Carré’s top five novels

    A selection of the legendary spy writer’s unforgettable classics

  • Monday, 14 December, 2020
    Obituary
    John le Carré, author, 1931-2020

    Writer of exquisite spy novels who probed the ethical boundaries of espionage and empire

  • Sunday, 13 December, 2020
    Master of cold war spy novel John le Carré dies

    Former intelligence officer elevated hard-boiled genre to a literary form exploring ethical and political dilemmas

  • Thursday, 5 March, 2020
    Frederick Studemann
    How Brexit brings the spies in from the cold

    The author John le Carré believes spooks will not be short of work in a world of ‘fluid allegiances’

  • Friday, 18 October, 2019
    ReviewFiction
    John le Carré’s Agent Running in the Field — a slow burn

    The author’s new spy thriller confronts topical issues, but relies on clunky dialogue

  • Friday, 28 September, 2018
    Life & Arts
    John le Carré, Nazis and cold war moral contradictions

    Investigating a Nazi fugitive’s death in Rome, Philippe Sands sought advice from the author

  • Friday, 8 September, 2017
    ReviewFiction
    A Legacy of Spies, by John le Carré — called to account

    George Smiley returns in a novel that delivers an uncoded blast at Brexit Britain

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  • Friday, 8 September, 2017
    Janan Ganesh
    Le Carré and other cold war comforts

    The 85-year-old author evokes an era that now seems weirdly reassuring

  • Wednesday, 28 September, 2016
    Nilanjana Roy
    ‘It was only the back of his head I was stealing’

    The other day, I performed a minor act of theft. He was sitting two rows ahead of me at a book launch

  • Friday, 9 September, 2016
    Person in the NewsTony Barber
    John le Carré, a portrayer of spies

    The novelist is a peerless observer of human nature, including his own, writes Tony Barber

  • Tuesday, 6 September, 2016
    John Gapper
    The Pigeon Tunnel by John le Carré review — a delicate truth

    The great spy novelist opts for selective disclosure in his memoir but it is richly satisfying nonetheless

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2016
    ReviewArts
    Our Kind of Traitor — film review: ‘Flawless timing’

    A John le Carré adaptation enlivened by Damian Lewis and Stellan Skarsgård

  • Friday, 30 October, 2015
    Life & Arts
    The spy who became John le Carré

    George Smiley’s creator is more than a genre specialist — he is one of the most accomplished postwar British novelists

  • Thursday, 21 May, 2015
    ReviewFilm
    We Are Many — film review

    The worldwide 2003 protests against the Iraq war are recalled in this documentary

  • Friday, 6 September, 2013
    FT Magazine
    Conversations with John le Carré

    The master novelist discusses spooks, the ‘secret world’, Edward Snowden and Syria with his neighbour Philippe Sands

  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2013
    ReviewFiction
    Spies like us

    Spooks, oligarchs and spin in Le Carré’s modern-day London

  • Wednesday, 20 June, 2012
    World
    Suu Kyi warns on Myanmar progress
  • Wednesday, 25 April, 2012
    ReviewLife & Arts
    The Columnist, Friedman Theatre, New York

    John Lithgow labours as a gay pundit exposed in 1960s America but finds a character of diminishing interest

  • Friday, 28 October, 2011
    Terrorism
    MI5 Russia spy probe was ‘akin to Clouseau’
  • Friday, 16 September, 2011
    UK politics & policy
    There’s no romance left in espionage

    Britain’s real edge is not in ‘humint’ – spies – but ‘sigint’, writes Max Hastings

  • Friday, 22 July, 2011
    ReviewBooks
    Rip Tide

    Stella Rimington’s blundering secret agents are more down to earth than the average screen spy

  • Friday, 12 November, 2010
    InterviewEuropean banks
    Maverick tries to clean up at the office
  • Friday, 17 August, 2007
    ReviewFT Magazine
    The Mission Song
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