Volume 53, Number 15 · October 5, 2006

Our Man in the Underworld

By Mark Ford

My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973

by Harry Mathews

Dalkey Archive, 203 pp., $13.95 (paper)

Oulipo Compendium

edited by Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie

Make Now, 333 pp., $36.00 (paper)

In late 1965, shortly after finishing his second novel, Tlooth, Harry Mathews paid a visit to his friend Fred Warner, the British ambassador in Laos. Accompanying Warner to various embassy functions, he was surprised to find himself cold-shouldered by everyone he met. 'What was I doing here?' they would ask.

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