At around the four-minute mark of my first viewing of the Cloud Atlas trailer, as the M83 track swelled to its bursting point and a hoverbike darted through future-Korea, I remember e-mailing and GChatting at least a dozen friends with a link to the preview and my take: "Holy Shit." Naturally, ever ... More >>
One man's ambitious, iconoclastic, like-nothing-ever-before-seen passion project is another man's Battlefield Earth, and so it goes that for some of us who saw the film's world premiere in Toronto last night, Cloud Atlas -- written and directed by Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski from David Mi ... More >>
Hey, fans of BBC America. You know David Mitchell, the comedian, actor and master of the nervous stammer who stars in the British-made sketch series That Mitchell and Webb Look and the sit-com Peep Show? The guy who also writes regular newspaper columns in The Guardian and The Observer and is the f ... More >>
The world according to David Mitchell
It's James Wood's World and We're Just Reading In It
Conform or disappear
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
A few good, recent books
The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy likes Under Milk Wood and a nice Zinfandel, thanks much
David Mitchell’s novel of an ’80s adolescence
Michael Cunningham’s multidirectional Specimen Days
