🎭 Culture Apr 2, 2026 · Brooke Kroeger

Words, Words, Words

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A Treacherous Secret Agent: How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the Red Scare by Marjorie Garber; Yale University Press, 256 pp., $30
For three long decades, artists used literature’s “slippery language,” double meanings, and subversive codespeak to strike back against the U.S. government’s Communist hunters. In her new book, A Treacherous Secret Agent, Marjorie Garber documents how the literary classics infiltrated and confounded official committee proceedings and television broadcasts w

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