Mr. Sobin's previous books include two novels, "Venus Blue" and "Dark Mirrors"; a nonfiction work, "Luminous Debris (Reflecting on Vestige in Provence and Languedoc)"; and six volumes of poetry.
The novel was praised as a "dazzling work, luminous, vast" by Robert Macfarlane, chair of the judges, who also observed that it was "a book you sometimes feel lost in, fearing it to be a 'baggy monster,' but it turns out to be as tightly structured as an orrery".
The chairman of the Booker's judges, Robert Macfarlane, called the book "a dazzling work, luminous, vast … a book you sometimes feel lost in, fearing it to be 'a big baggy monster,' but it turns out to be as tightly structured as an orrery".
Asking him to help her give the White House a "Boston complexion where possible," Mrs. Kennedy phoned Perry T. Rathbone, then the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and received a loan of, among other works, six luminous watercolors by John Singer Sargent.
Ms. Netrebko sounded lovely in a Czech work, a luminous performance of "Song to the Moon" from Dvorak's "Rusalka".
And I find Stephen Johnson completely compelling; his analysis of music, composers and bodies of work is luminous, completely unpatronising yet totally clear.
"Bonnard's work is luminous and always painterly," says Aurélie in a typically unconvincing chat, "but his subjectivity is totally radical".
To set a musical context for the piece Mr. Rattle and the orchestra, joined by the Westminster Symphonic Choir and (in one work) the luminous soprano Camilla Tilling began with three alluring choral songs by Mahler's contemporary Hugo Wolf.
But then, after your second or third viewing of one of his pieces, you realize that there is more to his work than luminous colors.
Though his identity is a mystery, he is known for converging various styles, with work resembling luminous waves in one piece, and glitchy patterns in the next.
The immersive vision is the work of master digital artist Miguel Chevalier, who specializes in expansive, digitally luminous works.
