A number of books out this week — a tale of tribal politics, a close-focus mystery, measured criticism and a unique relationship — are tied up in answering the question: How do we define ourselves?

The intense drama may not be among Parks' most immediately satisfying works, but it is so evocative, so layered, so ...

Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has forged a play about the toll that doing a job like intercepting migrants inevitably takes on ...