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The classic coming-of-age novel that inspired a new TV series remains timeless and necessary, on the page and screen.
Judy Blume's 1975 book about a teen losing her virginity gets a modern spin on Netflix. Here are the biggest changes from the ...
Nearly five decades later, Netflix’s adaptation of “Forever,” developed by Mara Brock Akil, brings Blume’s themes into a ...
Judy Blume, one of the most well-known authors of children's literature and young adult novels, has had her work transformed ...
Building on a base of sex-positive teen series is a brand-new iteration that re-examines the ideas from Blume’s novel 50 ...
Blume’s willingness to treat teen fiction with the utmost candour has always ruffled feathers, writes . Netflix’s provocative ...
Forever' showrunner Mara Brock Akil talks about bringing Judy Blume's story of teen sex and love to Netflix as a story about ...
For IndieWire's Future of Filmmaking, Mara Brock Akil talks reinventing Judy Blume novel 'Forever' in her own image. — 'What ...
Mara Brock Akil returns with Forever, a fresh Netflix take on Judy Blume’s novel, redefining first love for a new generation.
“Books like Forever reflected the massive changes that women were experiencing in US culture at the time, in a way that pretty much no one else writing for young people did. In short, Blume ...