The Perfect Spy, Elite Universities, and More

Geoff Dyer on his late style. "Although it took me a while to realize it, I could only fully become myself as a writer if I was funny" ... more »

The perfect spy — and the perfect spy novelist — is someone, like John le Carré, who feels like an impostor in their own life... more »

Elite universities are bastions of wokeness. Or: Elite universities are fin…