Featured Guest: John le Carré
 |  The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocratby Ryszard Kapuscinski Written thirty years ago: a beautifully drawn portrait of an African potentate's declining empire that artfully mirrors Kapuscinski's own dismay at the tragedy of his beloved Poland under Communist rule. |
 |  The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passionby Ford Maddox Ford The inner life of a good and deeply inhibited man caught in the toils of love and duty. |
 |  Georges De La Tour by Jacques Thuillier The French baroque painter Georges de La Tour for his explicit use of diagramatic shape to create a tense and clandestine intimacy. |
 |  Alfred Brendel plays Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1by Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel's interpretations of Beethoven's piano sonatas allow me, someone who is not musical, to hear music as conversation. |
 |  The Lives of OthersFor God's sake, let's not have a Hollywood remake. |
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