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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 if I could figure this out, this would help me a lot.”

Listen • 4:32 People love gardens and to garden. They go on tours of famous gardens all over the world. Of course our own Missouri Botanical Garden is world renowned. Gardens are depicted in works of art going back to ancient times and in works of art being made to this day. The Garden of Eden is the most famous of all gardens and great masters such as Jan Brueghel the Elder, Michelangelo and Lucas Cranach have painted their interpretations of that magical, mystical garden. Just recently there have been art exhibitions right here in St. Louis in which the garden was the ...

February was another locked down month with a curfew in Quebec, and I was at home going nowhere. It snowed a lot. I saw a total of three other human beings in the whole month. The prevailing mood of this pandemic for many of us is “other people have it worse, but this sure sucks.” I read a perfectly reasonable seventeen books, and many of them were really excellent, which is always cheering. This is the story of a young man with enough money to live on in London for a year and try to write, who entirely fails to achieve anything. It’s a comedy, though it is very sad, and you can see her...

British writer Kazuo Ishiguro is a rarity and now a Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro after winning the Nobel Prize, which the 62-year-old British writer called “flabbergastingly flattering.” (Ben Stansall / AFP/Getty Images ) But then Kazuo Ishiguro, the 2017 Nobel Laureate in Literature, has always been surprising. He is, after all, that rarest of creatures — a literary craftsman who also sells books. Ever since the 1989 publication of “The Remains of the Day,” winner of England’s prestigious Booker Prize and adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Anthony Hopkins and...

Kazuo Ishiguro Sees What the Future Is Doing to Us https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/magazine/kazuo-ishiguro-klara.html Credit...Jack Davison for The New York Times Sections Kazuo Ishiguro Sees What the Future Is Doing to Us With his new novel, the Nobel Prize-winner reaffirms himself as our most profound observer of human fragility in the technological era. Credit...Jack Davison for The New York Times Listen to This ArticleAudio Recording by Audm To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, . On a bright, cool Saturday in late October 1983, the growing prospect of th...