SILENCE, EXILE AND CUNNING.

POPULAR culture; RIGHT & left (Political science); NINETEEN thirties; AUTHORS; 20TH century British authors; BUCHAN, John, 1875-1940; ELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965; YEATS, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939; SUSPENSE fiction; TWENTIETH century

The article focuses on British authors and books in the 1930s, noting their political polarization during the era. It discusses literary trends of the period which included a rise in the genre of thrillers as well as the prominence of expressing the political feelings of various authors. Some of the authors discussed include T. S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, and John Buchan. The popularity of nationalist themes, depictions of espionage, and tense international relations within the works of the decade is particularly highlighted.