Once upon a time, just over a decade ago, David Mitchell was a little-known writer with two novels under his belt. Then, in 2004, he published the science-fiction blockbuster Cloud Atlas. Now he’s an ...

David Mitchell's brilliant new novel, The Bone Clocks, spans roughly sixty years, half of them spent (1984 to the present), half not (the present to 2043). Sure, its characters—many of them the heirs ...