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The Comfort of Spy Stories in Troubling Times

A tide of new movies, documentaries and books offers a pleasurable, yet informative, refuge from the day's awful headlines

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Jeff Stein
Oct 01, 2020
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One of the side benefits of dipping into a new spy thriller, documentary or book is that it allows you to dodge the torrent of bad news while providing comfort that you’re not really indulging in pure escapism.

So it is with films like “Kingdom of Silence,” a documentary that drills into the assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi and…

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