Those who argue we have an immigration police state may well be right. But the alternative is an ever-larger pool of exploited labor at the bottom of U.S. society.

What should a religious novel look like in the age of Silicon Valley and Donald Trump? Randy Boyagoda’s riotous satire Original Prin offers an answer.

Elia Kazan’s 1957 classic is a prescient warning about the power of demagogues, which remains all too relevant more than 60 years later.

A new book makes a strong case for a national push to spur innovation—but it fails to connect dots when it comes to the China threat.

What do they have in common? More than you might think.

Roderick Beaton’s sweeping, sympathetic history of modern Greece illustrates the tension between two kinds of nationalism—and ultimately, between two kinds of freedom.

A new book is as sharp and precise as any top secret briefing on Russia’s authoritarian President might be. But for all the great detail, it gets part of the big picture wrong.

In the 1951 classic, an otherworldly being feeds on all-too-human fears—and shows how bonds can fragment in a climate of paranoia and distrust.

In the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s new Oresteia, humanism ex machina doesn’t save the day.

There’s nothing intelligent to say about a massacre, wrote Kurt Vonnegut of his book about the firebombing of Dresden. So why are we still reading it a half-century later?