The Giver “accidentally’’ shows Jonas a map of the community, the outer edges marked by a Boundary of Memory. These are to keep the memories in. But what would happen if he were to cross it ...

But it's also a world without memory, at least in the premise of Lois Lowry's 1993 novel The Giver. The movie adaptation opened this week and stars Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges.

But then young Jonas becomes The Receiver of Memory who meets "The Giver," the wise man who will lift Jonas ― and me ― out of our drudgery. Yes, yes, I know what’s coming next.

We recently caught up with author Lois Lowry to talk about her seminal novel, “The Giver,’’ the creative process of turning it into a movie, and what she’d miss most if we were suddenly ...

Lois Lowry published “The Giver” in 1993, and not long after, Jeff Bridges was on a mission to make it into a movie. After two decades of stops and starts, Bridges, acting as a producer ...

“The Giver” is one of those movies that operates like an aesthetic X-ray, exposing the weakness of its source material. Lois Lowry’s young adult novel could be called “The First Book of ...

But it's also a world without memory, at least in the premise of Lois Lowry's 1993 novel The Giver. The movie adaptation opened this week and stars Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges.

But it's also a world without memory, at least in the premise of Lois Lowry's 1993 novel The Giver. The movie adaptation opened this week and stars Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges.

Lowry's father didn't have Alzheimer's but as he began to forget his past, the author says, she began to imagine a book about eliminating painful memories. The Giver has just been adapted into a film.