Monsters Old and New : Edward Wilson’s »Farewell Dinner For a Spy«, etc. Edward Wilson is known – though perhaps not as known as he should be – for a handful of fast moving and historically-based espionage novels. What differentiates his fiction from his fellow genre travellers – e.g., John LeCarré, Charles McCarry, Ben Pastor, Robert Littell, Alan Furst – is his humane, but unapologetic, leftist perspective. Nothing all that radical, yet insistent, particularly when it comes to the relationship between an increasingly subservient Britain and an ever more powerful U.S.. In
Read More 2015 Als Appetitanreger auf den großen CulturMag-Jahresrückblick, der Mitte Dezember erscheint, blickt unser Kolumnist John Harvey auf seine Lektüren, Kinoerlebnisse und seine Lieblingsmusik des Jahres 2015 zurück. BOOKS According to my notes, I’ve read close to 60 books this year, fiction and non-fiction, and there are two that stand out from the rest: both non-fiction and, by sheer happenstance, the first and last books on that list. Both books are about America, American lives, and are distinguished by a quality of writing and sense of purpose that make them difficult
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