Comments on: Beyond the Balkans – Eric Ambler and the British Espionage Novel, 1936-1940 http://calitreview.com/49 An arts and culture magazine. Wed, 23 May 2012 14:35:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Walter S. Fieldshttp://calitreview.com/49/comment-page-1#comment-102172 Walter S. Fields Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:04:12 +0000 http://calitreview.com//essays/beyond-the-balkans-eric-ambler-and-the-british-espionage-novel-1936-1940/#comment-102172 Were I to teach psychology or history, Ambler would be required reading...the plague of Updike, etc. could be halted. If not now, in a generation or two. Harvard buys his papers, ignoring Gaddis (almost an alumni) and Burroughs, writers of power and on power. Ambler is likewise doubly great. Many thanks, Walter Fields. p.s. Have you done any reviews of Operators and Things, by O'Brian, another remarkable study of manipulation. Were I to teach psychology or history, Ambler would be required reading…the plague of Updike, etc. could be
halted. If not now, in a generation or two. Harvard buys
his papers, ignoring Gaddis (almost an alumni) and Burroughs,
writers of power and on power. Ambler is likewise doubly
great. Many thanks, Walter Fields.

p.s. Have you done any reviews of Operators and Things, by
O’Brian, another remarkable study of manipulation.

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