American fiction

Inside first-time writer-director Cord Jefferson's 'American Fiction,' the starry, satirical festival darling that's generating serious awards buzz.

The first film from the director Cord Jefferson stars Jeffrey Wright as an author who becomes a pseudonymous success writing a potboiler he loathes.

Jeffrey Wright is in a role of a lifetime as a frustrated Black professor driven to write a cliche-riddled crime saga – and makes universal his struggle to be seen and heard

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1) The Truman portray is created based on repetition and variation of small pictures of different people, but gives the sense of oneness. 2) In the movie, all those people (segments) actually created Truman(the unit). The poster design enhances the philosophy and theme of the movie.

His latest book, the novella collection “If It Bleeds,” offers the familiar unsettling pleasures.

Our favorite books of the year delve into everything from prisons to shipwrecks, ghost stories to extraterrestrials, American dreaming to American failures.