RaveWiredHandy political parallels are just the beginning of its charms ... shifts subtly from whatdunit to howcouldit, Ogawa\'s spare and affecting prose leaving ample room for the dread to creep in ... a lovely, if bleak, meditation on faith and creativity—or faith in creativity—in a world that disavows both ... The newfound magic of The Memory Police is the way it gives form to that near-panicked acceleration ... truly feels like a portrait of today. To await the future is to disappear the present—which only accelerates the speed with which now turns to then, and then turns to nothing.
