The Remains of the Day
Heralded upon release for its elegance and restraint, The Remains of the Day has become a classic of British literature — and one of my favorite books! Ishiguro's simple, painstakingly precise language...
View ArticleNever Let Me Go: A Novel
Set in a (barely?) alternate England in the late 1990s, Never Let Me Go is the sum of Kathy's memories. Kathy is one of many "donors" who have been brought into being for purposes that, while...
View ArticleNever Let Me Go: A Novel
Ishiguro's prose has never failed to dazzle me, and this novel is certainly no exception. With a near stillness, a quiet passivity, Ishiguro's narrator tells the story of her and her two friends' eerie...
View ArticleBook News Thursday: Never Let Me Go Trailer, Books That Changed My World, and...
Never Say Never: A trailer has been released for the upcoming feature film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go. The film stars Oscar nominees Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan, with a...
View ArticleBook News Thursday: World War Woodward, “Never Let Me Go,” and More
Shark Attack: In the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani says mainly positive things about Bob Woodward's new book, Obama's Wars, about the administration's struggles with the war in Afghanistan. Although...
View ArticleKaren Thompson Walker: The Powells.com Interview
Karen Thompson Walker's debut novel, The Age of Miracles, is, as Aimee Bender states, "glowing magic....at once a love letter to the world as we know it and an elegy." Julia is 11 years old when the...
View ArticleNo Reading Required, Part 2: The Future of Books Is Yelp
Books are dying. Deal with it. You probably think I'm wrong. You probably also think President Obama was born on this planet. Ha! The very idea. I'm not saying you're stupid. You are, but I'm not...
View ArticleJ. Robert Lennon: The Powells.com Interview
J. Robert Lennon's first book, The Light of Falling Stars, got a glowing review from the New Yorker: "Lennon's impressive first novel — psychologically nuanced, richly detailed, unexpectedly comic —...
View ArticlePowell’s Q&A: Ben Dolnick
Describe your latest book. My latest novel is called At the Bottom of Everything, and it's about two men in their mid-20s, one of whom goes off the rails and disappears in India, the other of whom...
View ArticleNever Let Me Go
This is the kind of book that captures you so completely you find yourself reading it at work with the book covering your keyboard, hoping no one notices but also not really caring if you get fired....
View ArticleKazuo Ishiguro’s Playlist for The Buried Giant
The eight songs on this playlist didn't "inspire" The Buried Giant, nor did I play them out loud while writing. And with the notable exception of the Arvo Part, the visual landscapes conjured up by...
View ArticleThe Buried Giant
In some ways, Ishiguro's latest is a classic hero's journey in a time of dragons and spirits and magical mists. But it is also a profoundly thought-provoking look at the timeless big things: love,...
View ArticleBuried Giant
A sometimes quiet, sometimes tense quest novel, The Buried Giant weaves the pastoral with the magical. An elderly couple start a journey to visit the son they haven't seen in years. Anticipating an...
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