In 2019, Whitehead spoke with Dave Davies when the book was released. It's set in the early '60s, based on the true story of the Dozier reform school in Florida, where many boys were beaten and ...

And so we felt, when we first read it, that it would be a very challenging adaptation to do,” remembers “Nickel Boys” co-writer and producer Joslyn Barnes about the Colson Whitehead novel ...

Based on Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys,” the film sounds on the surface like it might be difficult to watch, and indeed ...

Colson Whitehead's brutal, brilliant, award-winning novel The Underground Railroad re-imagines the routes that American slaves took to freedom as a literal series of tracks, platforms and covert ...

“We’d be telling a half story.” She fills in the other half once again in the just-released Nickel Boys, Amazon’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 best-seller in which Ellis-Taylor ...

In adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, production designer Nora Mendis explains Ross’ vision came from a conceptual place. She says, “It was more about looking at ...

The Oscar-nominated director sits down with Q’s Tom Power to discuss his critically acclaimed new film, Nickel Boys, which is based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel of the same name.

Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, now a feature film, is based on a notorious Florida reform school where boys were beaten and sexually abused. Originally broadcast July 16, 2019.