It was Ian McGuire’s second novel, The North Water, longlisted for the Booker prize in 2016 and later adapted for television, that established his reputation for savage historical noir. A professor of... Read more »
Legalised assisted dying should “gradually” be extended to dementia sufferers, the author Ian McEwan has said. McEwan was “shocked by the snow-drilling attempts” by those opposed to the UK’s assisted dying bill,... Read more »
The sheer Englishness of Ian McEwan’s fiction may not be fully visible to his English readers. But it is clearly, and amusingly, visible to at least this Irish reader. It isn’t just... Read more »
Three hundred and eighty writers and organisations including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot have signed a letter stating that the Israeli government’s war... Read more »
‘It’s a drag, isn’t it,” Paul McCartney told reporters quizzing him the day after John Lennon’s murder, a soundbite as dispiritingly muted, even callous, as his reaction to his mother’s death when... Read more »
A new novel by Ian McEwan, which is set nearly a century in the future in a UK partly submerged by rising seas, will come out later this year. What We Can... Read more »