Upon a Cold War Dreary

A Pulitzer Prize winning critic revisits Le Carré’s “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold”

Editor’s Note: This afternoon I came across Henry Allen’s lovely retrospective on Le Carré’s debut masteriece and thought it so timely with snow blanketing Washington that I’m publishing it again for your fireside reading pleasure.

FOR 60 YEARS I HAVE BEEN READING The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

After evolving into a classic of 20^th century fiction, …