John le Carré
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Hiddleston, Colman and Laurie ooze talent for Le Carré, Stag is wholly rewarding and British justice is a real worry
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The spy writer’s 1993 novel has been updated and sexed up – I’m not complaining
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The Night Manager actor says secret agents’ mutability and capacity for self-invention are themselves dangerous qualities to possess
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As spy thriller The Night Manager arrives on our screens, how much intelligence do you have on the MI6 agent-turned-bestselling writer?
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The long, nuclear-armed standoff that followed the second world war was a terrifying parody of peace – which inspired some brilliant literature
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As the spy thriller Hapgood is revived at Hampstead theatre, Tom Stoppard talks about his drama of doubles and deception – and how John le Carré redefined espionage fiction
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Jane Austen rubs shoulders with Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett sits next to Harry Potter in the great self-help archive assembled by our contributors
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Adam Sisman’s life of the spy novelist is a fascinating truce between candour and guile
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was such a hit that le Carré had to resign from the secret service. In the decades since, as his new biographer writes, his politics have become more overt, and more leftwing
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In a week that sees the release of a new 007 film and a le Carré biography, what is our enduring love for tales of espionage?
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The Pigeon Tunnel, to be published in 2016, will detail the real-life experience of spying for MI5 and MI6 behind his thrillers
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From Conrad’s Secret Agent to Homeland, TV is in the grip of spymania: Ben Whishaw stars in London Spy, while two Bond writers have adapted Len Deighton’s SS-GB
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The literature of espionage, like its subjects, is often not to be trusted. These are some of the accounts you can believe
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This Thursday, antiquarian book fairs will spring up in locations the world over – from a woolshed in the Australian bush to the top of a Chicago skyscraper. Here is all you need to know, plus some of the rarest specimens you might bump into
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Val McDermid says that while crime fiction is naturally of the left, thrillers are on the side of the status quo. Jonathan Freedland votes against this reading
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Slow-burning stories of emotional and political intricacy need time to develop – and they’re all the better for it
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In advance of National Doodle Day on Friday February 6, authors including John le Carré and Margaret Atwood have contributed doodles to an online auction to raise money for Epilepsy Action
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It may well be Philip Seymour Hoffman’s ‘superb swansong’, but no amount of dressing up will disguise the spy thriller cliches and utter lack of suspense
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Philip Seymour Hoffman sets the beat of this dour thriller, as he traipses through a moral no-man’s land, writes Mark Kermode
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Xan Brooks: Author of spy thriller A Most Wanted Man adapted for cinema with Hoffman in lead role says he feared for actor's safety
TV is opening the door to female directors – film needs to catch up