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On Cowboy Carter, the pop superstar's bid to radicalize a parochial genre falls short.
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A buzzy film adaptation of Percival Everett’s Erasure, a novel about publishing’s racial politics, misreads what is truly ailing the book industry.
Cord Jefferson’s latest film, “American Fiction,” deals with the core tension between a Black author’s successful peddling to a White publishing industry, and the poignant interpersonal relationships of that writer’s personal life, writes Gene Seymour.
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