I did not enjoy it, but I don't regret it. It tilled up some valuable soil in the latent space of my mind. But God, what babble.

Maybe there's some profound similarity between everyday life in a post-truth era and the schemes of a spy. Maybe leCarre is just a masterful storyteller. The twist is a perfect knockout blow and has made me a superfan.

Every year we watch it for my birthday. Still only beginning to understand the intrigues. 1970s styles fit paranoia better than any other mood.

A prose poem to the sigma male that introduced me to The Smiths, now a favorite band.

Curious literary nonfiction, a very readable peek behind the veil. Persuasive in its thesis that the bomb and the computer are two facets of a single unfolding catastrophe.