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)

Sunday Q&A - 7/12/2020 audio

Poems referenced:

Ithaka, Cavafy

Ulysses, Tennyson

Canto 26, Inferno, Dante

Olga Tokarczuk video/interviews:

https://youtu.be/efyBd1JPk1g

https://youtu.be/NtRu30jwZuk

https://youtu.be/0o_clmBrpQs

https://youtu.be/0jnge9K9moI

https://youtu.be/P7GRC8xfE9A

Flights - print reviews:

New Yorker

NY Times

The Guardian

Washington Post

If you're struggling a bit with James Kelman's, That Was a Shiver, these articles and videos provide some context:

A review from The Guardian

Article and Interview, also The Guardian

TEDx talk about Scots language and experience

Gang culture in Glasgow

On the role of race and ethnicity in gang membership, see this article Changing Course

On a lighter note, two language oriented comedy sketches:

Elevator Recognition

Pub Patter

Here is a link to another Gilgamesh translation, well worth comparing, and which I have used in the past: Kovacs translation.

For a study of the extensive influence of Gilgamesh, see: Gilgamesh among Us: Modern Encounters with the Ancient Epic. There doesn't seem to be a paperback version available, but there is a Kindle edition.

Gilgamesh was onstage in DC this Summer, here is an account: DC Theatre Scene based on Gilgamesh: A Verse Play (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by  Pulitzer winner Yuself Komunyakaa.

Here is a rare opportunity to see a production of Webster's classic, The Duchess of Malfi:

Curtain Up review

Here's a link to the NY Times Review of the National Theatre of Greece's recent production of Persians at City Center in NYC.