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film

May 3, 2022

‘Firebird’ Review: Steamy Gay Cold War Drama Recalls Russia’s Past Atrocities

Jude Dry IndieWire

A military romance suffers under the weight of KGB surveillance in this restrained period drama set in Soviet-era Estonia.

books

December 17, 2020

John le Carré Told the Truth About Cold War Espionage When Few Others Would

Emma Steiner Jacobin

John le Carré died Saturday at eighty-nine. His novels rejected the glamor and ritz of Cold War–era spy fiction. Instead, he portrayed espionage as a dreary, disturbing machine that ground up innocents for a goal that didn’t justify the human cost.

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