American Fiction is a bold and bracing satire of publishing’s race problem
Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure shows the “African-American experience” as far richer than it’s often allowed to be.
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An idiot’s guide to cancel culture
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The aspirations of Agnes Callard
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