Each tale is accompanied by art, which, as we’ve come to expect from Selznick, is stunning. A mysterious narrator takes a boy to a library where the books tell the story of everything that ever happened, and everything that ever will happen. But the narrator, despite having written every book himself, by hand, doesn’t know, doesn’t even remember what he has written. “Sometimes I think they’re angels,” says a boy. “And sometimes I think they’re Martians … but … mostly, I just think they’re beautiful.”

Source: New York Times September 17, 2021 04:06 UTC