From Page to Screen

As Barry Jenkins adapts James Baldwin, here are three more books that inspired and complement this season's best Oscar bait

Katey Rich

1 The Sisters Brothers

By Patrick deWitt

French director Jacques Audiard makes his English-language debut with this Western adaptation, THE STORY: Hit-men brothers Charlie (Joaquin Phoenix) and Eli (John C. Reilly) cut a violent and wryly comic path across Gold Rush-era California in search of a mysterious man (Riz Ahmed) and an invention that might change their fortunes. Opens September 21.

2 Boy Erased

By Garrard Conley

Actor-director Joel Edgerton stars in the adaptation alongside Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, and Russell Crowe. THE STORY: Conley, the son of an Arkansas preacher, evocatively recalls his teenage years spent struggling with his sexuality, and the "ex-gay"conversiontherapy program he sought out to suppress it. Opens November 2.

3 Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

A Life By Jane Sherron De Hart

Felicity Jones and Armie Hammer star in On the Basis of Sex, about Ginsburg's early career.

THE STORY: Though not the basis for the film, this thorough biography, drawn in part from interviews with the justice herself, goes from Ginsburg's rough-and-tumble childhood in Brooklyn to her courtship with husband Marty to her 25-year Supreme Court tenure.

Opens December 25.

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