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...Now the refreshed Ballett Zürich — with 27 new dancers out of 50, junior company included — is gearing up to tackle its first big test: an evening-length adaptation of Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel Atonement,...
...In the novels of Ian McEwan, a pattern recurs. The main character makes a mistake — just one — which then hangs over them forever....
...I was thinking as I read Prima Facie of how engaging and propulsive the courtroom drama is as a literary form, from Zadie Smith’s The Fraud and Ian McEwan’s The Children Act to the more generic pleasures...
...Artificial intelligence has often been used by novelists as a trope to explore inequalities between human beings, with Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me (2019) and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021) being...
...Ian McEwan’s engaging new novel Lessons may most tangle with that last question, while leaving his protagonist as much in the dark about the roads not taken as the rest of us....
...Dame Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine, was praised for her services to fashion and publishing, and the author Sir Ian McEwan for his services to literature....
...Lessonsby Ian McEwan, Jonathan Cape £20 It’s a far cry from The Cement Garden....
...These leading players of the decade, who also included of course Ian McEwan, William Boyd, Alan Hollinghurst, Penelope Fitzgerald and Rose Tremain, were joined by startling talents that brought an essential...
...There’s this nice line that Ian McEwan said once. I think that it’s a bit like a tree falling over in your, on the path in front of you. You’re gonna have to cross it at some point....
...Lessonsby Ian McEwan, Penguin Audio, 17 hrs 34 mins Actor Simon McBurney narrates Ian McEwan’s journey through a man’s life, from a boarding-school childhood — complete with sexual abuse — to old age, encompassing...
...Chesil is one of Britain’s longest beaches and has been immortalised in postcards, paintings and fiction — most famously Ian McEwan’s 2007 novella. You can easily find it on a map....
...Ian McEwan’s new novel Lessons, his best if also his most digressive since Atonement, is about a man to whom life happens....
...Not Ian McEwan, who, now that he has outlived Hilary Mantel, might be the last serious novelist with nationwide name recognition. So why “Mart”?...
...Even minds as subtle as Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro commit this error. Imagine how much worse it is from the random who wants to talk Pod Save America in a bar....
...Janan Ganesh FT international politics commentator After a string of books that addressed without illuminating the issues of the day — climate change, Brexit, AI — Ian McEwan turns inwards with Lessons...
...Now try this I saw Amsterdam, and frankly I wish I hadn’t: not an adaptation of Ian McEwan’s delightfully dark novel but a messy and bloated original screenplay by David O. Russell....
...S&P Global’s Corporate Sustainability Assessment, a road map of what it assesses, runs to 253 pages, little of it reading like an Ian McEwan....
...The final pages come off like a reverse of the trick Ian McEwan played in Atonement, which began with a lengthy passage written in a consciously low generic style....
...Ian Stuart, who runs HSBC’s ringfenced bank in the UK, is among the preferred external candidates to replace Ross McEwan at RBS, which is majority-owned by the UK government, the people said....
...He hitched himself to a great generation of British writers, including Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens....
...His novels don’t have the sentence-by-sentence virtuosity of Martin Amis’s, or the polished plottedness of Ian McEwan’s....
...Ian McEwan’s days are spent crafting complex fiction about human morality and social change....
...A recurring character in the work of Ian McEwan is the metropolitan kook, pious in their quackery, immersed in high-tech life as they vaguely chide its hollowness....
...At 71, the man who, with Ian McEwan and other peers, saved English fiction from the “Hampstead adultery novel”, from endless inventories of furniture, is almost as old as Bellow was then....
...The Cockroach, by Ian McEwan, Vintage, RRP£7.99, 112 pages Robert Shrimsley is editorial director of the FT Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
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