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56 days ago

The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – ‘It was like fresh air’

A fascinating, exciting history of how the agency smuggled subversive books across the iron curtain

In, I think, November 1978, I got a call from a rather grand British journalist who’d heard that I w…

70 days ago

Andrey Kurkov: ‘At 17, I got my hands on an illegal copy of The Gulag Archipelago’

The Ukrainian author on the joys of Jack London, cracking Hermann Hesse, and the soldier’s tale he can no longer reread

My earliest reading memory
My grandmother’s medical encyclopedias. She was a mi…

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