This is FRESH AIR. In the new movie "Passing," based on the 1929 novel by Nella Larsen, Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga play two old acquaintances who have very different attitudes about their racial ...

Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson appear in Netflix's "Passing," directed by Rebecca Hall. Credit - Courtesy of Netflix In Passing, the film adaptation of Nella Larsen’s seminal 1929 novel of the same ...

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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 ...