Of course, most binaries are lies, and the idea that America's role in global politics has ever been an uncomplicated good would be a farce if it weren't so tragic.īut both farce and tragedy make for good fiction, and it is in the realm of both that Lauren Wilkinson's brilliant debut novel, American Spy, was born. versus them") resonated throughout society. This, then, is perhaps why spy novels are so appealing-particularly those set during the Cold War, when the idea of "us versus them" (or "U.S. America is a land of binaries, filled with people who are all too eager to ascribe the reductive qualities of "good" and "bad"-or "black" and "white"-to everything around them.
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