Upon a Cold War Dreary
A Pulitzer Prize winning critic revisits Le Carré’s “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold”
FOR 60 YEARS I have been reading The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
After evolving into a classic of 20th century fiction, after rising out of the wasteland of the Cold War to be planted in the garden of English literature, it has acquired the patina of a period piece, a souvenir, a relic.
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