Noah Kumin
Stop All the Clocks

Why does it take rupture to reveal the true capacities of the systems we have designed to shield us from collapse and loss? For the computational linguist and AI poet Mona Veigh, protagonist of Noah Kumin’s latest novel Stop All the Clocks, the suspicion of murder ends an idyllic post-tech life. Clues to the cause of a colleague’s death emerge from Mona’s subconscious as readily as they do from her AI offspring. 

Stop All the Clocks is a rare literary thriller in which the suspect of the whodunit isn’t a person but contemporary life itself. The conspiracy lies within the dark magic of digital technology – the ones and zeroes to which everyone is beholden – and the motive is the beguiling power of the words on the page. 

Join Noah Kumin in a discussion on the entwining of literary and executive functions of language, as well as the role of criticism – the name of his Mars Review of Books cannot be an accident! – in challenging the hidden implications of technology on today’s culture.