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“Roots,” Alex Haley’s semifictional account of his family’s journey from West Africa, posed a challenge: How far back could young Dennis trace his own ancestors?

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2021

In the movie Southside With You, a semifictional account of their first date, Barack and Michelle engage in a playful but unyielding debate about Wonder’s best album.

From Slate • Dec. 21, 2016

Michael Herr, whose 1977 Dispatches was one of the seminal books about Vietnam, first wrote this semifictional portrait of the man who turned gossip into a heavy industry as a film script.

From Time Magazine Archive

The matter of this small, strangely schizophrenic novel literally becomes the colonel's own sentences, his semifictional forays into his own Aussie boyhood during the '20s and '30s.

From Time Magazine Archive

Few businessmen are prepared to defend publicly the increasingly popular U.S. corporate practice of funneling foreign earnings into semifictional subsidiaries in such low-tax areas as Switzerland, Liberia, Panama, Bermuda or the Bahamas.

From Time Magazine Archive