Trauma is inescapable in the first trailer for Origin, Ava DuVernay’s forthcoming film chronicling Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson as she sits in generation-spanning grief to write ...

For filmmaker Ava DuVernay, who made Selma, 13th, and When They See Us, the journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s watershed 2020 book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (recommended to her repeatedly by ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste,” an acclaimed biography of Malcolm X and fiction by Martin Amis and the late Randall Kenan are among this year’s finalists for National Book Critics Circle ...

Watching Origin, the mind-stirring new film from writer-director Ava DuVernay, I found myself leaning forward, the way you do when a friend you haven’t seen in a long time relates an intensely ...

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When filmmaker Ava DuVernay first read Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, she was so stunned, she reread it twice. The bestselling book draws a line between India's ...

Take it from someone sitting here on a deadline: writing is the most miserable, solitary and tedious activity in which a person can take part, with the possible exception of golf. Yet many great ...

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With her latest film “Origin” Ava DuVernay proves that her gifts as a filmmaker are only eclipsed by her valor when it comes to using cinema as a medium to reflect complex elements of American history ...