• The Lure of the Jailhouse Confessional 

    From 'Lolita' to 'The Stranger,' confessional novels draw readers in only to upend expectations.



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    The Spy Who Helped Bring the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. back from the Brink of Nuclear War

    In 1983 a man named Oleg Gordievsky saved the world. Gordievsky, a disillusioned officer in the KGB, had in 1968 offered...