Article: Le Carre takes on New Yorker's Tina Brown

Mere weeks into her tenure as caretaker of America's best-loved crusty uncle, the New Yorker magazine, Tina Brown is facing accusations of misuse of power. In a strongly worded letter to Brown, British espionage writer John le Carre attacks the editor's "partisan journalism" for using her new magazine "to strike a blow in defence of" her husband, Random House editor Harold Evans. In her response, Brown calls the charge "extraordinarily sexist."

Like most byzantine literary battles, this one has its share of insults and large-scale defenses. "Le Carre has somehow gone very choleric," Brown said yesterday on the phone from her New Yorker office. "The idea that I would bang some drum for my ...

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