Ishiguro

Technological unemployment, the progress of artificial intelligence, inequality, the safety and ethics of gene editing, increasing loneliness and isolation—all of which we’re grappling with today—show up in Ishiguro’s world.

Ishiguro’s novel is a snapshot of one of our possible futures, told through the eyes of a robot who keeps you rooting for her to the end.

Then you have someone like Bob Dylan, one of Ishiguro’s heroes, who is constantly reinventing himself and trying out new things.

Ishiguro wanted to create a book for 5 or 6-year-olds with bright illustrations and a simple narrative.

Kathy in Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro’s 2005 dystopian novel about clones who exist to donate organs to others, is coming to terms with all that she has lost.

This week: Kazuo Ishiguro's new Hollywood short story, and musical influences in Joyce, Beckett, and other classic Irish writers.