It's not often that any fiction writer, much less a foreign one, ends up being chased down a Shanghai street by a gaggle of fans. Yet that's just what happened British author David Mitchell on a ...

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 ...