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 they identify. Although both are Black, they are light-skinned enough ...

The celebrated Harlem Renaissance author was inspired by her experiences as a mixed-race teenager and young adult in the Danish capital, a time that informed her 1928 novel, “Quicksand.” Retracing the ...

“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 ...

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.

Editor's note: This essay references a book whose title contains a racial slur. The one thing most people know about Nella Larsen's Passing is that it explores a peculiar kind of deception — being ...

On June 28th, 2000, novelist Gloria Naylor spoke about the illusion of the American dream and the role it plays in Nella Larsen's "Passing." She discussed the motivations behind the characters of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

George Hutchinson has delivered a definitive biography of the acclaimed Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen (1891-1964). The author of the novels Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929), Larsen was the ...

My adaptation of Nella Larsen’s “Passing” had a slow birth, even by the often glacial standards of script development. When I started writing, I was an actress in my 20s with vague but fervent ...

The movie adaptation of Nella Larsen's Passing is out now, and if you're less familiar with the book, critic Carole Bell describes it as a... Editor's note: This essay references a book whose title ...