Love is the one thing that transcends space and time,” says Dr. Brand (Anne Hathaway) in Interstellar. But in Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic, books can be transcendent too. Early in the film, Murph (Mackenzie Foy) attempts to decode meaning from the seemingly random volumes that fall from her bookshelves. Her dad, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), calls the mysterious force behind these occurrences her “ghost,” and Murph is certain that it’s using the books to communicate. Nolan, for his part, is using the books to communicate as well (Hello, Flatland!): The volumes he chose for her shelves relate to the characters in the film—and to his conceptual world. We asked the director about some of the featured tomes.
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks | “Once read, never forgotten, strangely moving, horrible tale of a child and father living in near isolation.” Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks | “Once read, never forgotten, strangely moving, horrible tale of a child and father living in near isolation.”
Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
Selected Poems - T. S. Eliot | “Concepts of time and space at their most complex are sometimes best expressed through art rather than science. Eliot’s ‘Four Quartets’ are as thought-provoking about time as any scientific text.” Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
Selected Poems - T. S. Eliot | “Concepts of time and space at their most complex are sometimes best expressed through art rather than science. Eliot’s ‘Four Quartets’ are as thought-provoking about time as any scientific text.”
Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
The Stand - Stephen King | "A bleak scenario that hammers home the fact that our perspective on momentous events will always be intimate.” Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
The Stand - Stephen King | "A bleak scenario that hammers home the fact that our perspective on momentous events will always be intimate.”
Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon | “The most elegant title. Ever.” Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon | “The most elegant title. Ever.”
Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
Emma - Jane Austen | “A beautiful name for a beautiful book (or a beautiful producer).” Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
Emma - Jane Austen | “A beautiful name for a beautiful book (or a beautiful producer).”
Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle | “My introduction to the idea of higher dimensions, including the notion of a tesseract.” Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle | “My introduction to the idea of higher dimensions, including the notion of a tesseract.”
Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges | “The name says it all.” Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges | “The name says it all.”
Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
The Go Between - L.P. Hartley | “The experiences of childhood echoing through the halls of adulthood. Moving, with one of the greatest opening sentences of all time.” Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
The Go Between - L.P. Hartley | “The experiences of childhood echoing through the halls of adulthood. Moving, with one of the greatest opening sentences of all time.”
Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin Abbott | “A remarkably readable attempt to change the actual way that you look at the world around you.” Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
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