I knew as soon as you make things up, you've crossed a crucial borderline between history and fiction. And that therefore, I — as forthrightly as I possibly could — I described these stories ...

From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, ...

A Texas county reversed its decision to classify a Native American history book as fiction in all public libraries after receiving widespread criticism and backlash from authors, advocacy groups ...

In American Fiction, a new film adaptation of Erasure, Monk (played by Jeffrey Wright) descends into a spiral of guilt and ...

From Tudor England to the White House, read the unmissable fiction that’s inspired by history. Conjure up some of your favourite books and we can guarantee some of them will have their roots in ...

‘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 ...