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20 Life-Changing Books That Will Inspire You and Transform Your Perspective

From classics by Joan Didion and Toni Morrison to recent best-sellers.

Marie Claire

Nickel Boys could be the most radical literary adaptation ever made – but how does it compare to the book?

The Nickel Boys (2019) won Colson Whitehead his second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making him one of just four writers to win it twice. The novel’s main setting is the Nickel Academy, a segregated reform school in mid-1960s Florida, based on the real-life Dozier School for Boys.

The Conversation

I spy: first-person films can be really exciting – but why are there so few?

Two new films, Nickel Boys and Presence, offer point-of-view perspectives – but it remains tantalisingly rare in the history of cinema

The Guardian - AU

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‘History was attempted to be buried’: the true story behind Oscar-nominated Nickel Boys

Director RaMell Ross details horrors behind Florida School for Boys that backdropped the moving film adaptation

The Guardian - US

Why Nickel Boys should win the best picture Oscar

In the first of our annual Oscar hustings, here’s why RaMell Ross’s incredibly tender film of Colson Whitehead’s novel should take the top prize

The Guardian - UK

Nickel Boys review – sublime, immersive adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s haunting reform school novel

Shot largely from the point of view of its two main characters, RaMell Ross’s masterly film takes you to the wrenching heart of this American south tale of brutal 60s racism

The Guardian - UK

Florida Lawmakers Apologize And Compensate Dozier School Abuse Victims

Florida lawmakers apologize to abuse survivors at Dozier School, offering restitution. Survivors share harrowing experiences of abuse and neglect.

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Hundreds apply for restitution for abuse suffered at Florida reform schools

Hundreds of people who say they suffered physical or sexual abuse at two state-run reform schools in Florida are in line to receive tens of thousands of dollars in restitution from the state, after Florida lawmakers formally apologized for the horrors they endured as children more than 50 years ago

The Independent UK

Nickel Boys is an artistically daring masterpiece

5/5 RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel uses a point-of-view camera to fully immerse audiences

The Independent UK

‘What would happen if the camera was Buddhist?’ The outlier film-making of RaMell Ross

The US photographer and director of Hale County This Morning, This Evening talks about how his latest film, Nickel Boys, redraws the contours of cinema

The Guardian - UK

Best movies of 2024 in the US: No 2 – Nickel Boys

RaMell Ross’s artful and unconventional adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel offers a radically immersive route into a difficult story

The Guardian - US

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead audiobook review – a dark chapter in America’s past

A pair of boys try to survive the horrors of a US reform school during the segregated 60s in this Pulitzer-winning novel

The Guardian - UK

"Nickel Boys" is a cinematic masterwork

Adapting Colson Whitehead's Pultizer-winning novel, director RaMell Ross favors earthly beauty over anguish

Salon

How to watch Nickel Boys

The award-nominated Nickel Boys is now playing, and we’ve got all the info you need on where and when to watch it.

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The Guardian - UK

Nickel Boys review – Colson Whitehead novel becomes intensely moving story of a racist reform school

Adaptation of Whitehead’s novel about two young friends trapped by institutional abuse is told with piercing beauty by RaMell Ross

France 24

Colson Whitehead, the Great American author

Colson Whitehead is one of the rare authors to win the Pulitzer Prize twice. The first time was for his novel "The Underground Railroad" in 2017, loved by Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey and made into a TV series by Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins. It led to him being on…

WhatToWatch

Nickel Boys: how to watch, reviews, awards, trailer, cast, plot and everything we know about the book adaptation

Nickel Boys is based on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Here's everything you need to know about the anticipated adaptation.

The Independent UK

Adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s ‘Nickel Boys’ to open New York Film Festival this fall

“Nickel Boys,” an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will open the 62nd New York Film Festival in September, organizers said Monday

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The Independent UK

Colson Whitehead's 'Crook Manifesto' wins $50,000 Gotham Prize for outstanding book about NYC

Colson Whitehead’s “Crook Manifesto” is this year’s winner of the Gotham Book Prize for an outstanding work about New York City

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Police Clear Pro-Palestinian Encampments From College Campuses

Law enforcement actions at US college campuses to clear pro-Palestinian encampments amid Israeli-Palestinian conflict tensions.

The Guardian - AU

The ultimate summer reading list: 15 crime thrillers and mysteries to keep you guessing

From Mick Herron’s Slow Horses and Ian Rankin’s Rebus to new books from Bret Easton Ellis and Emma Cline, your beach reads are sorted courtesy of Guardian Australia’s staff and critics

The Conversation

Crook Manifesto is strike two for Colson Whitehead’s 'strangely inert' Harlem crime saga

Midway through Colson Whitehead’s new novel Crook Manifesto, a filmmaker muses on how “reviewers like to trap you in their idea of you”, just as old friends and family only see “who you used to be”. The critical reception the book has received so far bears this out. Expecting yet…

The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Trackers by Charles Frazier and Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead.

The Guardian - UK

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead audiobook review – New York’s criminal underworld

Actor Dion Graham narrates this noirish tale of a wise-cracking furniture salesman who struggles to stay on the straight and narrow

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