Klara and the Sun links

Klara and the Sun links:

A Humanoid Who Cares For Humans, From the Mind of Kazuo Ishiguro (NYTimes review)

'Klara And The Sun' Is A Masterpiece About Life, Love And Mortality  (NPR review)

The Radiant Inner Life of a Robot (Atlantic review) 

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro review – another masterpiece (Guardian review) 

Bomb Under the Table: On Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun”  (LA Review of Books)

Kazuo Ishiguro on Klara and the Sun (Video/Waterstones)

Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro on his new book, Klara and the Sun (Video/Kennys)

Kazuo Ishiguro talks about ‘Klara and the Sun,’ ‘GMA’s’ March Book Club pick (Video/ABC News)

Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation with Kate Mosse for World Book Night (Video/British Library)

Kazuo Ishiguro: A Nobel Novelist Searches for Hope | The Agenda (Video)

Nobel Lecture: Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 (Video) 

Ishiguro and AI:

Kazuo Ishiguro Uses Artificial Intelligence to Reveal the Limits of Our Own (The New Yorker)

Kazuo Ishiguro thinks artificial intelligence could replace human novelists (Literary Hub)

Kazuo Ishiguro: 'AI, gene-editing, big data ... I worry we are not in control of these things any more' (Guardian) 

Klara and the Sun Imagines a Social Schism Driven by AI (Wired)

Nobel author Kazuo Ishiguro on artificial intelligence, and what it means to be human (CBC)

The Books Briefing: Boundaries Between Humans and Machines Are Vanishing (Atlantic)

The impact of artificial intelligence on human love - Kazuo Ishiguro (Channel 4)

Nobel-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro on artificial intelligence and love  (Channel 4)

Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘When AI is writing our constitutions we should worry’ I FT (Financial Times)


Book Lists for Summer and Fall 2021

Summer 2021 Book list

Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Picador)

Michael Thomas, Man Gone Down (Black Cat)

Claudia Rankine, Just Us: An American Conversation (Graywolf)

Jericho Brown, The Tradition (Copper Canyon)

Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Discomfort of Evening (Graywolf)

Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife (Back Bay)

 

Fall 2021 Book list

Plautus, The Brothers Menaechmus, in Four Comedies, trans. Segal (Oxford)

Marie de France, The Lais of Marie de France, trans. Gilbert (Norton Critical)

Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, ed. Mowat (Folger/Simon & Schuster)

Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil, trans. Lyngstad (Penguin)

Irène Némirovsky, Suite française, trans. Smith (Vintage)

Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun (Knopf)