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In its children’s video “Frederick Douglass: The Outspoken Abolitionist,” the fictionalized cartoon of Douglass warns children to “stay away from radicals” who want to change the American system rather than work within it.

One of the many great scenes in The Big Short, which fictionalizes famed investor Michael Burry’s bet against the U.S. housing market, involves a tower of wooden blocks.

Eddie Glaude Jr. slumps a bit as he rubs his forehead, the universal sign of being overwhelmed by the flood of partisan nonsense Aaron Tang fictionalizes in “Breaking the Deadlock: Truth Under Fire.”

Orlean is one of the New Yorker’s most high-profile writers, having been portrayed by Meryl Streep in “Adaptation,” a heavily fictionalized version of her book “The Orchid Thief.”

“I have a fictionalized version of my recovery” because people want so many details of what happened—and want a happy ending, he wrote.