Len Deighton, the prolific British writer, best known for "The Ipcress File" and other stylish, gritty spy thrillers, has died. He was 97. According to his literary agent Tim Bates, Deighton, "passed ...
All the little figures. It’s like a disease. You can’t stop it.” These are the words of the painter LS Lowry, discussing the compulsion that led him obsessively to depict the spindly hordes of the ...