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The Best Spy Show You Aren't Watching Blows Its Competition Out Of The Water

Neither self-referential nor cliché, 'The Agency' is the real deal. Here's why Season 2 is even better than Season 1.

Inverse

The rise of the literary nepo baby? The children of famous novelists on following in their parents’ footsteps

From Naomi Ishiguro to Jess Atwood Gibson, more children of high profile writers are becoming authors themselves. Parents and their literary offspring discuss the pressures of measuring up

The Guardian - UK

Spies and Other Gods: When spooks get spooked by self-doubt

You fancy James Wolff, an ex-spy writing under a pseudonym, struggled with life’s Big Questions when he was in service

Evening Standard

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Missing The Night Manager already? You have to watch this classic BBC le Carré adaptation

COMMENT: The 1979 series of ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ is on iPlayer at the moment and not to be missed, says Patrick Smith – it’s the purest expression of the author’s vision ever made

The Independent UK

‘Made me want to punch the air’: The Night Manager’s seductive, twisty return was a TV triumph

Without a weighty Le Carré novel behind it, there were fears the steamy, stylish spy series would feel phoned in. We needn’t have worried – it’s been a delight

The Guardian - AU

The Night Manager finale review – Merciless ending marks huge departure from le Carré’s style

3/5 Hugh Laurie’s weight of charisma has been a gift to this series, which in its latter stages has been let down by implausible character development

The Independent UK

Ralf Little to star in new stage adaptation of classic spy novel

‘I first read The Spy Who Came In From The Cold when I was 16 and it has stayed with me ever since’, says the actor

The Independent UK

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It sure doesn’t feel like le Carré, but The Night Manager needed its big twist

COMMENT: Without another novel to adapt for series two, the makers opted for a shock reveal that was oddly predictable but still welcome, says Patrick Smith

The Independent UK

The Night Manager returns: The best John le Carré adaptations of the past 25 years

The return of The Night Manager makes it the perfect time to revisit the big and small screen adaptations of author John le Carré’s works – with a special focus on the spy thrillers of the past 25 years.

Euronews

The Night Manager creator on the 'fluid love triangle' at the heart of series two

David Farr discusses the return of Jonathan Pine and the ‘subtle homoerotic strain’ in John le Carré’s work

Evening Standard

Hugh Laurie was ‘really tricky’ on The Night Manager as he ‘wanted Tom Hiddleston’s role’

‘House’ actor played arms dealer Richard Roper – but had always envisioned himself as the lead, says David Farr

The Independent UK

Le Carré with a cocktail, not a cuppa: the glamour and escapism of The Night Manager

The second series of the Tom Hiddleston-fronted drama is first le Carré adaptation not based on author’s own work

The Guardian - UK

Review: The British Spy Novelist Beloved by Fellow Spies

Tradecraft chronicles the career of John le Carré, intelligence officer turned author.

Reason

Charlie Hunnam Is Jumping From Serial Killers To John Le Carré's Spy-Verse For New Streaming Show

This is a sweet genre leap for the star.

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The Independent UK

The Night Manager season two: First images show Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman’s return after nine years

Fans will be disappointed that Hugh Laurie and Elizabeth Debicki are not expected to appear in the new series

The Conversation

Le Carré, Bacchae and radical feminist punk art – what to see and watch this week

John le Carré was a master of the spy novel – not by glamorising espionage, but by stripping it of illusion. His stories abandoned the trope of the suave, heartless agent in favour of morally complex characters navigating the shadowy ethics of Cold War intelligence. Gritty, ambiguous and deeply human,…

The Independent UK

Inside the meticulous, marvellous mind of John le Carré

IN FOCUS: A new exhibition opens up the spy writer’s sprawling literary archive to shed light on his idiosyncratic creative process. Katie Rosseinsky explores how he brought George Smiley and co to life

The Conversation

A new exhibition explores John le Carré’s writing process and what it says about his political conscience

To what do we owe our conscience? John le Carré once stated that all his fictional characters were, one way or another, navigating a world where duty to self is not necessarily duty to society.

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The Independent UK

Alistair Petrie on Sex Education and starring in Hamlet: ‘Connor Swindells is like my son. We speak every day’

INTERVIEW: The English actor tells Ellie Harrison about the sliding-doors moment that led to his role in the Netflix teen drama, the long-awaited new season of ‘The Night Manager’, and why he’s finally returning to theatre after a decade away from the stage

The Guardian - UK

Slow Horses author Mick Herron: ‘I love doing things that are against the rules’

As the hit thriller returns to our screens, its creator talks about false starts, surprise inspirations – and why he never looks inside Jackson Lamb’s head

The Guardian - UK

‘Like an academic’: private papers reveal John le Carré’s attention to detail

Exclusive: Oxford’s Bodleian libraries to put archive items on display for first time, celebrating spy author’s ‘tradecraft’

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine war has reignited ‘cold war strategies’, says John le Carré’s son

Nick Harkaway sees parallels with postwar period as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold comes to the West End

The Guardian - UK

Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway audiobook review – a new Smiley from le Carré’s son

Perfectly emulating the tone of his father’s spy novels, this cold war tale also benefits from Simon Russell Beale’s impeccable reading

The Independent UK

Even Happy Valley’s Siobhan Finneran can’t save Protection from mediocrity

2/5 Despite a fine lead performance, this ITV crime drama never quite transcends genre cliches

The Independent UK

Succession star Matthew Macfadyen to play George Smiley in fresh John le Carré adaptation

Actor will follow in the footsteps of Gary Oldman, Rupert Davis, Alec Guinness and Denholm Elliott

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