The AAFCA winners were announced this morning, alongside the organization’s list of the year’s ten best films. The list was topped by American Fiction, with spots for Oppenheimer, Past Lives ...

African American Film Critics Awards: ‘American Fiction,’ ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘Origin’ Top Winners. Danielle Brooks, Sterling K. Brown, Colman Domingo, Aujanue Ellis-Taylor and Da ...

Writer Chioma Okereke was taught by the novelist whose book inspired the Oscar-nominated film ‘American Fiction’. Like the movie’s frustrated protagonist, her own experiences are the same ...

In my nearly three decades as an editor, author and former editor of The New York Times Book Review, a shorthand has often been used to describe contemporary authors — the Latino poet, the ...

Starring Jeffrey Wright, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, and Tracee Ellis Ross, “American Fiction” is a surprisingly powerful hand grenade of a film.

The key book of that time was “The Norton Anthology of African American Literature” (1996), edited by Gates and the literary critic Nellie Y. McKay, alongside an editorial board of other ...

Rebecca’s Take“American Fiction” gained notice by claiming five Academy Award nominations, including best picture. Full of witty commentary and laughs, the biting social satire examines the ...

Jeffrey Wright, nominated for best actor in a leading role, for "American Fiction," attends the nominees luncheon for the 96th Oscars in Beverly Hills on Feb. 12.

Some of the past decade’s best racial satires have explored the politics of sounding Black or, conversely, sounding white. In the 2018 Boots Riley film Sorry to Bother You, a Black telemarketer ...

American Fiction has finally arrived in UK cinemas, and its stand-out scene challenges how we view Black representation and who is in the right.