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Kazuo Ishiguro

July 2024

  • Lost chances … Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield in the film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.

    Five of the best
    Five of the best books about literary threesomes

    Love triangles have a special ability to captivate readers, whether set in ancient history, 1960s Japan or a sci-fi future. Here are five of the best

March 2024

  • Jarvis Cocker performing with Pulp at the Castlefield Bowl in Manchester.

    From Dylan to Ishiguro: can song lyrics ever be literature?

    A new book of lyrics by Kazuo Ishiguro joins collections by Kate Bush and Jarvis Cocker. But can songwriting ever work on the page?

November 2023

  • The Irish novelist Paul Lynch, who won this year’s Booker prize for his dystopian novel Prophet Song.

    The Guardian view on utopias: news from nowhere can help us here and now

    Editorial: The Booker prize has gone to a dystopian vision of a totalitarian Ireland. But imagined futures needn’t always be bleak

September 2023

  • Kazuo Ishiguro, in a T-shirt and blazer and wearing glasses, smiles with his arm on the back of a chair armrest

    Kazuo Ishiguro song lyrics collection to be published

    The prize-winning novelist’s lyrics, written for US jazz singer Stacey Kent, will be published with illustrations next March

August 2023

  • A table displays signs with #BookTok at a Barnes & Noble branch in Scottsdale, Arizona.

    ‘I can’t stress how much BookTok sells’: teen literary influencers swaying publishers

    TikTok recommendations are driving sales and launching authors’ careers as the social media app continues to reshape the industry

May 2023

  • Kazuo Ishiguro.

    Where to start with
    Where to start with: Kazuo Ishiguro

    Bittersweet tales of a deluded butler, Arthurian fables and the view from AI – if you’re not familiar with the garlanded author’s work, here are some good entry points

November 2022

  • Bill Nighy as dying bureaucrat Mr Williams, who has a desperate urge to ‘live a little’.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Living review – Kazuo Ishiguro elegantly adapts 1950s mortality tale

  • Bill Nighy and Aimee Lou Wood in Living, a gentle and exquisitely sad film.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Living review – Bill Nighy tackles life and death in exquisitely sad drama

October 2022

  • IMDb Exclusive Portraits Aimee Lou Wood And Bill Nighy Living<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 21: Bill Nighy poses during the IMDb Studio, presented by Acura portrait session at Soho Hotel on January 21, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for IMDb)

    ‘I think about death 35 times a day’: Bill Nighy on sex, social media – and still being able to manage the stairs

    In his new film, Living, Nighy plays a civil servant who has six months to live – a part tailor-made for him by Kazuo Ishiguro. He talks about the power of nostalgia, keeping it minimal and his close brush with Instagram

April 2022

  • Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, based on Alan Warner’s The Sopranos, at the Traverse theatre, Edinburgh in 2015.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about performance – the lives of actors and musicians

  • Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, Aftermath by Preti Taneja and Bless the Daughter Raised By a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in March

February 2022

  • Kazuo Ishiguro

    Audiobook of the week
    Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro audiobook review – a ghost in the machine

    The childike innocence of the Never Let Me Go author’s exploration of what it means to be human is sweetly enhanced by narrator Sura Siu

December 2021

  • Best fiction of 2021

    Best books of 2021
    Best fiction of 2021

    Dazzling debuts, a word-of-mouth hit, plus this year’s bestsellers from Sally Rooney, Jonathan Franzen, Kazuo Ishiguro and more

October 2021

  • ‘A real word of mouth hit’ … Janice Hallett’s book The Appeal has pipped Richard Osman to the post on the shortlist for the Waterstones book of the year.

    Cosy crime and Greek myth retellings: the Waterstones book of the year shortlist

    Janice Hallett’s murder mystery has pipped Richard Osman to a spot on the bookseller’s list

September 2021

  • Alan Johnson:

    Books that made me
    Alan Johnson: ‘I read Animal Farm at 14 and it changed my life’

    The author and former home secretary on disliking Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend and his fondness for PG Wodehouse
  • Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson in The Remains of the Day (1993).

    Stream team
    The Remains of the Day: revisit Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson’s classic tale of longing

    James Ivory’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel is a tragicomic story of endless manners and unlived possibilities
  • top: Anuk Arudpragasam , Patricia Lockwood, Nadifa Mohamed bottom: Maggie Shipstead, Damon Galgut, Richard Powers

    Nadifa Mohamed is sole British writer to make Booker prize shortlist

    The author of The Fortune Men will now compete with five other novelists from South Africa, Sri Lanka and the US for the 2021 award

July 2021

  • Justine Jordan

    Rachel Cusk’s singular novel stands out on wide-ranging Booker longlist

    Justine Jordan
    Second Place is both timeless and up-to-the minute, with big names Richard Powers and Kazuo Ishiguro among strong international finalists
  • Booker prize longlistees (from left clockwise: Kazuo Ishiguro, Rachel Cusk, Richard Powers, Patricia Lockwood, Sunjeev Sahota and Nadifa Mohamed.

    Booker prize reveals globe-spanning longlist of ‘engrossing stories’

    Kazuo Ishiguro makes cut alongside Rachel Cusk and Richard Powers, and novels from Sri Lanka and South Africa compete with choices from the US and UK
  • Michael Lewis photographed in his writing room near his home in Berkeley, California, April 2021

    Books that made me
    Michael Lewis: ‘I didn’t believe in ghosts until I read Neil Gaiman’

    The author on his envy of Philip Pullman’s world, imitating Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and struggling with Don Quixote
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