Don’t imagine you’re smarter
Neal Ascherson: The Informers, 19 July 2018
My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File
by Katherine Verdery.
Duke, 344 pp., £20.99, May 2018,978 0 8223 7081 9 Show More
by Katherine Verdery.
Duke, 344 pp., £20.99, May 2018,
“... live as if you were even for a moment unnoticed, out of sight, out of earshot, and truly alone?’ Katherine Verdery was a young, high-spirited American when she arrived in Romania in 1973, a Stanford postgraduate intending to research an anthropology thesis on Romanian village life. She came as a bit of a leftie, 1968 vintage, inclined to mock the ... ”
