Throughout the six-series of Joe Weisberg’s cold-war spy drama, The Americans, Philip Jennings, a KGB agent for the Soviet Union’s ‘illegals’ programme, is, at once, a committed husband, a devoted father and a proficient spy. Indeed, it is through the potent coalescence of these three titles that Philip’s resolve is challenged and he is subsequently... Continue Reading →
Within the spy genre, regardless of medium, the theme of identity is an intrinsic aspect to the profile of an operative. For Philip Jennings, as portrayed by Cardiff-born actor Matthew Rhys, the co-protagonist of Joe Weisberg seminal FX spy-series, The Americans, the subject of identity, and its malleability, is a defining characteristic that has shaped... Continue Reading →
An Analysis of John Edward Williams’s Authorial Craft Stoner, John Edward Williams’s third novel, is, in essence, a eulogy: an ode to one man’s quiet life. The titular character of the novel is an academic whose familial origins stem from a ‘small farm in central Missouri near the village of Booneville, some forty miles from... Continue Reading →
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