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.

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First-time director Hall goes behind the camera to adapt Nella Larsen's seminal novel, with beautiful and provocative results. In the mid-1920s, budding writer Nella Larsen set her eyes on joining the ...

Heidi W. Durrow is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and Yale Law School. Her debut novel is The Girl Who Fell From The Sky. There are novels that are enjoyable to read ...

“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 ...

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 ...

This complex figure of the Harlem Renaissance refuses to be categorised by modern-day binaries, making her collected works an essential read James Walton was previously deputy literary editor of The ...