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The long, nuclear-armed standoff that followed the second world war was a terrifying parody of peace – which inspired some brilliant literature

It’s only when I re-read Our Man in Havana that I realized I shared a street with the hapless spy hero of Graham Greene’s novel. My own office was in a grand trading exchange in the old city that d…

Our Man in Havana

The novel was published at the end of 1958, and much of the city it describes remains intact.

Graham Greene - Our Man in Havana Penguin Books 1790, 1967 Cover Photo: Ronald Traeger

Alec Guinness shooting Our Man in Havana (Peter Stackpole. 1959)

From Viking magical mead poetry to Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall, here’s how writers have encapsulated an eternal boozy truth