Acclaimed Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro

The Nobel Prize-winning novelist’s latest book, Klara and the Sun, is set in the future and has an artificially intelligent narrator. “I wanted some of that childlike freshness and openness and naivety to survive all the way through the text in her,” he says. We talk about his writing process, hitchhiking in the ’60s, and his family history in Nagasaki.

Also, David Bianculli reviews 61st Street, a new AMC series about crime, the police, and the courts.