When we first learned about Cord Jefferson’s debut film, American Fiction, we knew it was a masterpiece in the making. Now, ...

Contains spoilers for "American Fiction" Because it's only fairly recently that Black filmmakers have been given a platform ...

"James" by Percival EverettIt was a big year for the writer whose publisher used to be Minnesota-based Graywolf Press.

Sterling K. Brown is opening up about the start of his career and how Hollywood wanted him to change to land roles.

Simon is a Los Angeles-based journalist who covers film and TV. Writer-director Cord Jefferson at the 'American Fiction' Los Angeles Special Screening held at the ... [+] Samuel Goldwyn Theater in ...

Any cultural critic can complain, as I did in last weekend’s column, about the lack of creativity in American popular culture ...

‘American Fiction’ was Cord Jefferson’s first ever feature film. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images) “American Fiction” won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay, a triumph for writer-director ...

With a chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion is a helpful guide for students of American literature and readers of crime fiction. ..."the Companion succeeds in presenting the richness ...

Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut confronts our culture's obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who's fed up with ...

In the recent Broadway update of the classic American story ... Prynne is one of the great feminist characters in all of literature, says librettist David Mason: full of dignity and courage ...

In the 1960s, a revolutionary literary movement burst on to the global publishing scene in what would become known as the Latin American boom. The international success of authors like Colombia's ...

“Erasure,” which Graywolf released before Everett’s move to Doubleday, was adapted for the movie “American Fiction,” winning an Oscar for screenwriter Cord Jefferson. And then came ...