Graham Greene

Legendary editor Starling Lawrence talks about his novel The Thief of Words, his Peace Corps experience, and the works that inspired him with his colleague editor Jilly Bialosky.

From Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley to Joan Didion’s overlooked espionage novel, thriller writer Alex Berenson picks his favorite books about Americans abroad.

A look at great reads from the editor of the TLS. This week: an even-handed review of Tony Blair’s memoir, a guide to the changing past of Pope Benedict XVI, and a new history of Graham Greene’s family.

One of the great Vietnam War correspondents, former Newsweek Saigon bureau chief Kevin Buckley, on why Robert McNamara, who died Monday, was a descendant of the villain in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American.

What the Oscar nominated John Patrick Shanley is reading.