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.

Alissa Wilkinson covered film and culture for Vox. Alissa is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics. Halfway through Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel Passing, ...

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 article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Somewhere on Long Island around 1980, a blondish preteen is onstage at ...

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 ...

In this biography of novelist Nella Larsen, Hutchinson (The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White) explores her work, life and place in social history, positing that the reason for Larsen's shadowy ...