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Reading Spy Fiction, and About Those Who Wrote It

A friend asked me recently how I managed to read all the things I recommend in my Friday newsletter.Was this newsletter a collective effort, he asked? Was there some committee of like-minded readers who consumed a great deal of material and…

The Time I Wrote Martin Amis a Letter

It’s the kind of thing you do when you’re young. You write about your heroes, and then you actually write to them. In my case the hero was Martin Amis, a writer I read in my early 20s in a trance of admiration. This was the mid-to-late…