A review of Ian McEwan's novel Saturday (2005) understood as an allegorical portrait of Western middle-class everyday experience and life-stories within the hisdoi:10.2139/ssrn.1119623Garcia Landa, Jose AngelOAISocial Science Electronic Publishing...
What We Can Know, the epic new novel from Ian McEwan, will be published on 18 September 2025. Ian McEwan says of his new novel: "What We Can Know is science fiction without the science. This is a novel about history, and what we can know of it, and of each other. We live our ...
in fact as yet there haven’t been any of his books that I haven’t liked (enjoyed isn’t always a word you can use with McEwan) though I might have struggled with a few here and there. I had, until now, never tried his short...
Richard Brown: A Wilderness of Mirrors: The Mediated Berlin Backgrounds for Ian McEwan's The Innocent (p. 49) Cécile Leupolt: Resisting Media Manipulation: Ian McEwan's Politics of Scepticism in Saturday (p. 57) Enno Ruge: Seize the Saturday: Re-viewing Ian McEwan's Saturday and Re-readin...
The British novelist was once described as a 'chronicler of the physics of everyday life.’ With a body of work suffused with scientific fascination, what does he see as the novel's role in humanity's reckoning with its darkest threats?
Full name, Ian Russell McEwan; born June 21, 1948, in Aldershot, England; sonof David (an army officer) and Rose Lilian Violet (Moore) McEwan; married Penny Allen (a healer and astrologer), 1982; children: two sons, two stepdaughters. Addresses: Agent--c/o Jonathan Cape, 20 Vauxhall...
I read but didn’t review McEwan’s previous novel ‘Machines Like Me’ in 2019 which I didn’t think was among his best work, but I would say that ‘Lessons’ is very much a return to form and genuinely engrossing. Many thanks to Vintage Books for sending me a review copy via Net...
IAN MCEWANis the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories,First Love, Last Rites,won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels includeThe Child in Time,which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Awa...
It took almost a year to write this review. It's the kind of book that you can read in one sitting. But it is not a story that you can easily digest. It's disturbing. At least to me. If the goal of a novel is to disrupt readers, Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me achieves that....
This essay reads Ian McEwan's Children Act (2014) as a literary tragedy that is in dialogue with the classical form and the philosophical discourse that surrounds it. Of particular relevance is George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's definition of tragedy as a collision between two valid but limited ar...