Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Passing, the film adaptation of Nella Larsen’s seminal 1929 novel of the same name, two women reckon with who they are and how ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Hall has set up Passing, an adaptation based on Nella Larsen’s 1920s Harlem Renaissance novel that explores the practice of racial passing, a term used for a person classified as a ...

“Passing,” actor Rebecca Hall’s shining directorial debut, reproduces the finest details of Nella Larsen’s brilliantly crafted 1929 novel. In the face of the seemingly insurmountable challenge of ...

The actor, who earned an Oscar nomination for the historical drama 'Loving,' reflects on her desire to preserve history: "It's important to look to the past and not erase it." By Brian Davids Writer ...

Movie adaptations of novels are like tomcats, unfaithful by nature. And Nella Larsen’s “Passing” would have seemed “unfilmable” anyway, its conventional action limited, its emotions internalized.

Adapted from Nella Larsen's 1929 novella, Netflix's new film centers on two Black women, one of whom pretends to be white; the other could pretend, but chooses not to. This is FRESH AIR. In the new ...

When Nella Larsen died, in 1964, she left little behind: a ground-floor apartment, two published novels, some short stories, a few letters. She was childless, divorced and estranged from her half ...