#Cloud Atlas

Reading as a Kind of Meditation

“Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.” — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas Digital ...

Gimmicks, Language, and the Evolution of Reading

(This is No. 43 in our series of Public Service Films, following the success of No. 42, How Not To Be ...

Read-y To Wear: The CLOUD ATLAS Edition

I LOVED Amanda Nelson‘s recent Banana Karenina post. I would eat that post up with a spoon if people were allowed ...

Oh, My Souls!: Two Rioters Read Cloud Atlas

If all you know about David Mitchell and Cloud Atlas is what you’ve seen in the epically long trailers for ...

Top 12 Fall Movies Based on Books

Even with the sad (or happy, depending on your Tobey Maguire-ness) news that The Great Gatsby movie’s been delayed until ...

The CLOUD ATLAS Trailer Rundown

In Which the CLOUD ATLAS Trailer Exceeds Expectations

This winter, my Confidence Index on the film of Cloud Atlas was skeptical. OK, OK, I put on my Doubting ...

The Confidence Index: Tykwer and Wachowskis’ CLOUD ATLAS

  David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas is one of those books you love all the more because the worlds it ...

READING PATHWAYS: David Mitchell

Among the ways I’m grateful to have been introduced to David Mitchell’s novels, one is that I had no preconceptions ...

Glasgow Snuff Films: Where Great Books Go To Die

The sight of Halle Berry and Brad Pitt chills my blood. Trust me, I’ve seen them. The pair stalk the ...