Volume 42, Number 7 · April 20, 1995
Under Western Eyes
By Louis Menand
Our Game
by John le Carré
Knopf, 302 pp., $24.00
John le Carré redesigned the spy novel so it could be enjoyed by liberal anti-Communists. This was not an insignificant service. For liberal anti-Communists like a good spy story as much as anyone else does, and it would have been unfair to ask them to get through the cold war without the distraction of a few thrillers they could take pleasure in with an easy conscience.
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