Spies

Errol Morris’s portrait of John le Carré ignores its own strengths and leans into its weaknesses.

Let’s not take any chances.

The U.S. government arrested Chinese professors, implying that they were foreign agents. The professors say that they’ve been caught up in a xenophobic panic.

Access to information only goes so far to explain the curious link between secrets and those who tell them.

In the bloody civil war, Khaled al-Halabi switched sides. But what country does he really serve?

He was a gentleman and a spy, though he would have stoutly denied that the two could coexist.

The history of espionage is a lesson in paradox: the better your intelligence, the dumber your conduct; the more you know, the less you anticipate.

From The New Yorker’s archive, pieces that explore the often bizarre world in which espionage unfolds.

How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia.

The spy agency has published “Studies in Intelligence,” a mix of literary criticism, analysis, and derring-do, since 1955.

Although she told me often how much she liked and admired me, I was unmistakably a servant.

After approximately an hour, the meeting broke up, with two of the spies leaving the Oval Office and the third remaining behind.

Natalie Portman stars as Jacqueline Kennedy, and Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard play assassins in love.