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FictionJanuary 8, 2004
A Near Perfect Spy Novelist
A year ago now, when the Bush Administration was preparing the world for an American invasion of Iraq, John le Carré wrote a column of scathing, sharp-toothed commentary for the Times
Patrick Smith
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Non-fictionOctober 23, 2003
A Kiss in Java
In a broad square not far from the center of Jakarta, a large obelisk of concrete soars into the sky.
Patrick Smith
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FictionMarch 27, 2003
A Stone Unturned
Someone once described Graham Greene as the novelist of decolonizing Britain.
Patrick Smith
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FictionOctober 31, 2002
Excursions in the Real World
Why is so much fiction written in our language and why is so much of what is written of so little consequence?
Patrick Smith
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EconomyApril 4, 2002
Monterrey and the World
How are we to read the International Conference on Financing for Development, which recently concluded in Monterrey, Mexico? Just another United Nations talkathon?
Patrick Smith
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Foreign PolicyOctober 1, 2001
‘Manifest Duplicity’
Some Sundays back, the New York Times fronted a story from its Paris correspondent, Suzanne Daley, about the fear and loathing Americans induce among Europeans these days.
Patrick Smith
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PoliticsJune 7, 2001
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BiographyNovember 25, 1999
‘Our’ Gide?
Whenever Gide wrote or spoke about himself directly, which was not infrequently, he would insist that his wars within were to be traced to his very genes.
Patrick Smith
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Non-fictionSeptember 2, 1999
Harnessing the Rising Sun
Americans aren’t much for history these days. History is for Europeans–for Germans, with their thickets of theory, and the French, who are forever going on about their revolution.
Patrick Smith