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...loss, while former aides grumble about Palin and the general embarrassment she engendered for the GOP. By all accounts, McCain - who declined to include Palin on a list of potential 2012 candidates during a Tonight Show appearance in April - is dreading what Palin might say in Going Rogue, her book due out next month. "The part I'm looking forward to most is the part where it energized our campaign and her selection put us ahead in the polls," McCain told a crowd at a recent Washington conference. "The part I am looking forward to least is some...
...total secrecy. The government acknowledged the existence of the service only in 1989 and publicly identified its leaders in 1992. Now, as part of efforts to make its operations more transparent, MI5 has given unprecedented access to its files to Britain's foremost intelligence scholar, Christopher Andrew, whose new book, The Defense of the Realm, is considered the most complete history of the agency ever published. TIME spoke with Andrew about the conspiracy theories he's debunked, former spies in the British government and his feelings about James Bond...
...want the public to know anything, so you don't tell them anything. What changed a generation ago is that the British people became less deferential, and if they're not given some idea of what's going on, they fall for conspiracy theorists. The best-selling book in the U.S. about British intelligence is, after all, Peter Wright's Spycatcher. A couple of the stories that he put in there that are complete nonsense are still widely believed: that there was a plot against former Prime Minister Harold Wilson - I now know there wasn't, though there...
...surprising choice to Americans too - only a few of Müller's books have been translated into English - but in a way it would have been a surprise if the choice had not been a surprise. In the past decade, about half of the Nobel laureates in literature have been writers of whom few readers in the U.S., academics and literary journalists included, had or have any real awareness. What Americans may not realize is that Müller's selection isn't much less surprising in Germany. Müller, whose major works include The Land of Green...
...Mitterrand finds himself under attack for his description of sex during trips to Thailand, which critics called sex tourism. Mitterrand, the nephew of late socialist President François Mitterrand, wrote about sex trips in a 2005 novel, detailing paying "boys" for sex. At the time the book was printed, the publisher's official description of La Mauvaise Vie (The Bad Life) unabashedly said the main character "greatly resembles" Mitterrand. Now detractors are using those admissions to call for his resignation...