Raritania

In the opening pages of Death is Forever we learn that Cabal, a hugely successful Anglo-American spy ring run in East Germany during the Co...

New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2008, pp. 288. First things first--the book's title will strike many as a misnomer. In the str...

Graham Greene once wrote, How seldom in the literary life do we pause to pay a debt of gratitude except to the great or the fashionable, who...

Reading early twentieth century American literature--Sinclair Lewis for example, or Theodore Dreiser, or F. Scott Fitzgerald, or any number ...

In discussing the concern mentioned in my title, I suppose I should define my terms. By "macropolitics" I mean the the internati...

Over the years, Bond parodies have often blended the send-up of 007 with a broader evocation of the '60s. Austin Powers, for example, is...

New York: Del Rey, 2006, pp. 453. Timothy Zahn's original Thrawn trilogy apart, I've read very few of the Star Wars tie-in novels....

The idea of a movie starring a female James Bond type is nothing new. It wasn't even new in 1962 when the Bond series began. Ian Fle...

William Haggard (1907-1993) is relatively obscure today, but in his day was regarded as a master of the spy story, and often compared with t...

Westport, CN: Praeger, 1994, pp. 416. It can often seem as if no historical subject has been more thoroughly, minutely, exhaustively exami...