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Amman Compendium: Mariam Itani on Beirut, Home, and the Paradox of Living in Jordan

Amman Compendium: Mariam Itani on Beirut, Home, and the Paradox of Living in Jordan

In Translation by Wiam El-Tamami, from the Latest Issue of "The Common"

By Mariam Itani | May 19, 2025

On the Real-Life Story of Deep-Cover Russian Spies Living As American Families

On the Real-Life Story of Deep-Cover Russian Spies Living As American Families

Shaun Walker on the Past and Present of a Classic Cold War Espionage Operation

By Shaun Walker | April 16, 2025

Why Everything We Think We Know About Spies Is Wrong

Why Everything We Think We Know About Spies Is Wrong

Elyse Graham Explores the Mundane Yet Dangerous World of Espionage During the Second World War

By Elyse Graham | September 25, 2024

Writer, Woman, Playwright, Spy: How Espionage Influenced Aphra Behn’s Writing

Writer, Woman, Playwright, Spy: How Espionage Influenced Aphra Behn’s Writing

Valorie Castellanos Clark on the Covert Quests of the First Woman to Make a Living Writing in English

By Valorie Castellanos Clark | March 18, 2024

Sisterhood of the Second World War: On Writing Female Spies’ Classified Adventures

Sisterhood of the Second World War: On Writing Female Spies’ Classified Adventures

CJ Wray Shares What a Pair of Veteran Sisters Taught Her About Espionage and Postwar Life

By CJ Wray | January 31, 2024

Anna Pitoniak on Why Women Make Better Spies

Anna Pitoniak on Why Women Make Better Spies

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 15, 2023

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Spying is Lying: How David Cornwell Became John Le Carré

By Adam Sisman | October 30, 2023

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The True Stories of the Women on the Front Lines of America’s Fledgling Intelligence Services

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A Day in the Life of an 11-Year-Old Spy in 1939 Berlin

A Day in the Life of an 11-Year-Old Spy in 1939 Berlin

Rebecca Donner on a Blue Knapsack as the Accessory to Espionage

By Rebecca Donner | August 9, 2021

a Truly Great Spy">Meet a Bad Man Who Became<br a Truly Great Spy">

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Owen Matthews on Richard Sorge, Master of Espionage

By Owen Matthews | December 16, 2019

Uncovering the Secret History of a WWII-Era Brooklyn Spy

Uncovering the Secret History of a WWII-Era Brooklyn Spy

How to Reconstruct a Life with the Public Record

By David A. Taylor | May 14, 2019

On the British Brothers Who Infiltrated Nazi-Occupied France

On the British Brothers Who Infiltrated Nazi-Occupied France

"Theirs Would Be a Lonely Struggle"

By Charles Glass | September 28, 2018

Networks: Another Thing Silicon Valley Didn't Actually Invent

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Andrew Keen in Conversation with Niall Ferguson

By Andrew Keen | March 9, 2018

Nathan Englander on

Nathan Englander on "His Turducken" of a Novel: Spy Thriller, Love Story, Meta-History

Writing the Neverending Heartbreak of Israel and Palestine with a Little Bit of Humor

By Dylan Foley | September 12, 2017

Shirley Hazzard's Teenage Spy Career

Shirley Hazzard's Teenage Spy Career

Paul French on the Late Writer's Brush with Espionage

By Paul French | December 20, 2016

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