Fiction v. Nonfiction Texts are commonly classified as fiction or nonfiction. Movie reviews, on the other hand, are nonfiction, because they discuss something real namely movies. Note that newspaper articles are nonfiction even when fabricated. The test is not whether the assertions are true.
Nonfiction can make false assertions, and often does.
The question is whether the assertions claim to describe reality, no matter how speculative the discussion may be. The distinction between fiction and nonfiction has been blurred in recent years. All rights reserved. This Web page may be linked to other Web pages.