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Lauren Michele Jackson on the depiction of professors in films such as “American Fiction” and the use of cancel culture as a form of narrative momentum.

Jeffrey Wright delivers career-best work in “American Fiction” at the Toronto International Film Festival, a razor-sharp satire of race and literature that everyone should see.

Arguing With Racists Epigraph: “Unhappy the land that has no heroes.” “No, unhappy the land that needs heroes.”~  (Brecht) Preface. St Augustine said he thinks he knows what time is but if someone were to ask him “What is time?”, he would find it difficult to answer. So it seems with the word “race”. We think we know its meaning and use the term with casual confidence. In literary theory, the Russian Formalists drew attention to the fact that language is the medium of literature, and one of the devices of literature was (through unusual use and collocation) to make strange th...