‘American Fiction’ Review: Rewriting the Narrative on Black Success
In Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction, Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) is tired. He’s a writer of dense books, intelligent and full of meaning and metaphor, but they don’t fly off the shelf. His intrepid publisher, Arthur (John Ortiz) compares his book to a very expensive bottle of Johnny Walker Red: expensive, so fewer people imbibe,…
