Jeffrey Wright’s Oscar-nominated performance in the dark comedy “American Fiction” was exactly what viewers of his work have come to love from him: thoughtful, stirring, and jaundiced.

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This was a big year for literacy in Oscar-nominated movies. Survey the nominees and you’ll find a Little Free Library’s worth of books: In Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Poor Things,” Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) ...

Schnabels attempt to characterize Basquiats life as a tragedy in his film, Basquiat, speaks to the issues of whitewashing.

Liam Payne's girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, reportedly gave him an ultimatum, demanding that he choose between her and his struggle with drugs. According to reports, Kate opened up about their ...

Fame and Fortune: author Jeffrey Deaver on his first job, being a landlord and how to become financially stable as a writer ...

Former president Bill Clinton has revealed that he regrets ever having met with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. In his new book 'Citizen', which is scheduled to come out next week ...

The doyen of African-American crime fiction, who died 40 years ago ... following the example of fellow African-American novelists Richard Wright and James Baldwin, in 1953, aged 44, Himes left ...

$5,000 honors for fiction and nonfiction presented by the American Library Association. “James” already is a finalist for the National Book Award and the Booker Prize and has won the Kirkus ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for fiction for her novel Orbital, a sharp, lyrical ...