John le Carré

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Spy-novel master John le Carré revisits a cold case; Jesmyn Ward tells a haunting Southern gothic ghost story; and Stephen Greenblatt searches for the real story of Adam and Eve

John le Carré on his life as a spy, a writer of fiction and now a memoirist