David Mitchell on translating—and learning from—Naoki HigashidaThe author of ’Cloud Atlas’ and ’The Bone Clocks’ credits the autistic Higashida with helping him understand his own boy
Slade House: Another brick in David Mitchell’s wallMitchell is a detail obsessive, the mark of a storyteller
David Mitchell’s new time-travelling opus is a marvelThe Bone Clocks shouldn’t work. Mike Doherty explains why it does
Where have all the novels gone?2009 was a bumper crop for fall fiction. This year, the big names are in short supply.