'Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space," 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. She is certain that what she calls a ghost is using the books to try to communicate. Nolan, for his part, is absolutely using the books to communicate (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 fea tured tomes.
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