Midway through Alan Furst's elegant new novel, "Spies of the Balkans," the hero, Greek police official Constantine Zannis, and one of his girlfriends go to a secret screening of Charlie Chaplin's "The ...

Alan Furst’s writing reminds me of a swim in perfect water on a perfect day, fluid and exquisite. One wants the feeling to go on forever, the book to never end. Such is it with this historical spy ...

John Varley (1947-2025), Hugo and Nebula Award winning science fiction novelist, who died on December 10, 2025 at the age of 78, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded in the KPFA studios ...

I started Alan Furst’s The Foreign Correspondent with a bias – John Le Carré has remained the only spy novelist who can reel me in and keep me captivated for the necessarily complex plots of espionage ...

“Midnight in Europe” by Alan Furst (Random House, 251 pages, $27) Are you the sort of reader who is on the lookout for books that are engaging, of consistently high quality, and reliably entertaining?

At the end of novelist Alan Furst's "Spies of the Balkans," readers discover that two characters who managed to escape from Nazi Germany ended up opening a bookstore in Tulsa, Okla., of all places.

America's pre-eminent spy novelist Alan Furst took a course in Victorian literature when he was a sophomore in college and it changed everything. One of the writers he studied in that course was ...

Alan Furst, historical spy novelist, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded in the KPFA studios during the book tour for “Blood of Victory, September 26, 2002. This is a first-time podcast.

In Alan Furst’s new novel, “A Hero of France,” the setting is German-occupied France in 1941. The proud tricolor nation had fallen to the Nazi invasion the previous year and a fledgling resistance had ...