Ian McEwan is the literary icon whose depth and breadth of titles literally has something for everyone. Fiction, Sci-fi, collections of stories, and even a children’s book, McEwan is unmatched by any other contemporary author. With his newest book, Lessons coming, we couldn’t help but go back through his work to appreciate the range that Ian McEwan has to offer us […]

Experimenting with the “voice” telling a story is a fundamental tool of the fiction-writing trade. Narrators come in a wide variety of styles, from first-person intimate, to unreliably distanced, to godlike in knowledge and perception. The way a story is told is just as important—sometimes more so—than the story itself. Still, most narrators are more or less conventional. They […]

Time to stash the beach reads in favor of something more hefty? Seems like it. It’s September, and publishers are pulling out the big guns, with heavyweight returns from bestsellers and award winners like Ann Patchett, Jonathan Safran Foer (with his first in 11 years!), and Ian McEwan. But they’re also betting on some startling new […]