Weekend Read: 'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross on the "Epic Banal," Adaptation, and the Power of Cinema

"Nickel Academy doesn't emerge in America's shadow—it emerges in its sunlight."

Back in December, I met up with Nickel Boys’s director, RaMell Ross, to discuss his latest film, Nickel Boys, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

On Thursday, Nickel Boy…