President Warren G. Harding once urged the American people to "strive for production as Babe Ruth strives for home runs." In Gish Jen's inventive but muddled dystopian novel The Resisters, production ...

Gish Jen has always had something of a "Frank Capra-esque" view of America. Like Capra, who directed immortal Hollywood films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life, Jen's big ...

Speculative fiction is having a day. Readers are diving into the horrors of our current moment through literature with a fantastical gaze from authors such as Margaret Atwood and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

There’s a darkness to dystopia: it’s embedded in the very word— the opposite of a utopia, a world gone wrong. The magic of Gish Jen’s latest novel, “The Resisters,” is that, amid a dark and cautionary ...

2023 marked the 100th anniversary of the country's oldest secular pacifist organization, the War Resisters League. Also, a new film opened in November about Bayard Rustin, who organized the 1963 Great ...

Historians who hail the heroes of World War II typically focus on soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy or Allied troops liberating concentration camps. Rarely remembered are the networks of quiet ...