Ian Fleming
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In-trays, Out-trays, and Ashtrays October 23, 2024
In one of the most famous scenes in the history of cinema, Ursula Andress wades ashore on a Caribbean beach with a knife in her belt, singing “Underneath the Mango Tree.” Then she meets the dashing secret agent James Bond, and a franchise is born whi...
Shaken, Not Stirred October 14, 2024
You learn things from studying any life, but more from some lives than others. For some reason my father always had the autobiography of Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini around when I was growing up. Frequently, of an evening, he took Plutarch’...
My James Bond September 19, 2024
August 12, 2024, marked the sixtieth anniversary of Ian Fleming’s death. His creation James Bond entered the world a little more than a decade before he died, with the 1953 publication of Fleming’s taut Casino Royale. The first Bond novel was well-re...
