Volume 38, Number 6 · March 28, 1991
After the Fall
By Ian Buruma
The Secret Pilgrim
by John le Carré
Knopf, 335 pp., $21.95
George Smiley, John le Carré's melancholy spymaster, has the right take, I think, on the British taste for spying. It has much to do with class; specifically, with that great institution where class is instilled: the British public school, with its arcane rituals, its lifelong loyalties and resentments, and its cloistered cabals, where intrigues thrive.
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