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COVID has us reading more — so be glad for so much creativity, excellence on offer.

Literature in the past year soared with exceptional titles, including work by Columbus native Hanif Abdurraqib, "A Devil in America."

When told his latest novel, Klara and the Sun (Knopf), lingers long after its final pages, he wants to know why. Why do some books linger, he asks, and why do some, even if they are enjoyable, fade away? “Sometimes books that you don’t even think are that good when you are reading them, they just stay with you for years and years,” Ishiguro says. “For a long time, I’ve been trying to crack this. I’ve been trying to figure out what is the magic formula, if there is one. Because ...

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Another round in the culture wars.

Klara is an Artificial Friend who observes humanity in Kazuo Ishiguros "Klara and the Sun," his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in 2017.

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