David Mitchell is a writer of the first water. This is the second book of his that I have read and reviewed for this column (his excellent book “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet” being the first) ...

An intricately interwoven tale of six stories set in different times and places, Mitchell's 2004 novel is "a wonderful book that is hard to describe," writes Gates. Though its "mind-bending nesting ...

Do you want the true-true? I think the film of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is dumb-dumb. Andy and Lana Wachowski (the latter once Larry, and his transformation into Lana might well tie into the ...

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present.” This refrain pops up regularly in the just-released major motion picture, Cloud Atlas, based on the bestselling novel by David ...