Sex, booze and subterfuge in the story of an extraordinary friendship at the heart of MI6 ...

“He is very agreeable,” wrote a baroness in Belgium, introducing Graham Greene to a doctor running a leper colony in the Congo, but “very problematic.” Indeed so. The love of ambiguity and restless ...

In the firmament of contemporary international letters, there are a few select names which seem to trail clouds of glory everywhere they go. For literate folk around the world—even for literate folk ...

Bruce Bawer’s criticism is generally a pleasure to read. His analysis is perspicacious, thorough, and rational. However, he seems to have seriously gone amiss in his recent examination of Graham ...

Kaliane Bradley is the author of “The Ministry of Time,” the best-selling debut novel that was chosen for Good Morning America Book Club. A British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London, Bradley ...

THE QUIET AMERICAN (249 pp.)—Graham Greene—Viking ($3.50). At first glance, Graham Greene seems to have changed his theme. His recent novels—The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, The End ...

Memories fade, and also betray us. I published a memoir more than 20 years ago now and realized only many years after publication that it was largely untrue. My research was deficient. I had ...

When Arthur starts researching his new book about trees, he meets Phil, a hugely helpful resource, who becomes a good friend. Then Arthur meets Phil’s wife, Sarah and the two fall deeply in love. “God ...

Mewshaw, whom the longtime NPR book commentator Alan Cheuse once called “the best novelist in America nobody knows,” mentions both of these books in his memoir. In writing about Iyer’s book, Mewshaw ...