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The silver spoon spy: how Cambridge double-agent Donald Maclean got away with it for so long
Tall, fair-haired and attractive, Maclean maintained a surface allure of charm that eventually failed to obscure the demons wrestling beneath.

By William Boyd
29 April
Culture
John le Carré's A Legacy of Spies is a compelling tale of Cold War duplicity
It may seem a strange observation, but love is a major component of the author's fictional world.

By William Boyd
07 September
Culture
In True Detective long-form television fully came of age
True Detective was the equivalent of four movies bolted together and it held the viewer inexorably.

By William Boyd
27 December
Culture
William Boyd: Why John le Carré is more than a spy novelist
What Joseph Conrad started, John le Carré enshrined and made modern.

By William Boyd
21 October
Culture
William Boyd: how mortality shapes our existence
What makes our species unique is that we know we are trapped in time, caught briefly between the prenatal darkness and the posthumous one.

By William Boyd
17 July
Culture
William Boyd on Kim Philby: how did a privileged young Englishman become a national traitor?
The story of how Philby and four other privileged young Englishmen became spies or double agents for the USSR borders on a perverse sense of national pride.
By William Boyd
27 March

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