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Other Things I Wrote
Some things I wrote I particularly like
The Escape Artist: on John le Carré’s letters and Suleika Dawson’s ‘The Secret Heart’
The Los Angeles Review of Books
‘What I think of as the spy novel—its intricacy, jargon, whiff of despair, and bleak moral worldview; its Manichean personal dramas, office knife-fights, and monochrome political superstructure—is in many respects something that sprang from the brain of David Cornwell.’
The Lord of Limits
Substack
We want to get closer to Vermeer. We see his immaculate canvases and we want to be closer to their crystalline shimmer of glamour and tenderness. In the sphere of mass image, Vermeer has a small church and its liturgy is detail: a skein of milk, a filament of lace or reflective metal, a pearl earring.
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