What one city’s gentrification spells for the rest of us.
Shane Joaquin Jimenez
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s Latest is More Buried Than Giant
There’s a strangely alluring blandness to the prose of British writer Kazuo Ishiguro—a flat, tepid quality that lends itself neatly to the themes of his novels: self-deception, regret, lost love, faded youth. Ishiguro’s latest, The Buried Giant, is written as blandly as the best of his books, but in failing to achieve any sustained charm […]
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s Latest Is Stuck in the Dark Ages
Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest is stuck in the Dark Ages.