Graham Greene

Hollywood was just fine avoiding all portrayals of the Central Intelligence Agency for years after the agency's founding in 1947.

On Pascal Covici, the editor who nurtured some of the most iconic names in literature.

Its agents are often depicted as malevolent puppet masters—or as bumbling idiots. The truth is even less comforting.

A new book examines military manuals as a genre to understand what armed counter-revolutionaries think of as the right way to do what they do.

On the passage and enforcement of laws to exclude or deport immigrants for their beliefs, and the people who challenged those laws.

‘Cold Warriors’ traces how the U.S. and Soviet government used writers like George Orwell and Boris Pasternak to wage ideological battles during the Cold War.

On spy fiction.