Ian McEwan's novel Enduring Love opens with one of the most riveting chapters in the history of the written word. The scene it sets--of a lovers' picnic being interrupted by the unlikely appearance of a hot air balloon in mid-crash complete with grown men...

"The pathological extensions of love not only touch upon but overlap with normal experience," goes the neatly summarizing thesis of Enduring Love (quoted, apparently, from an actual British Journal of Psychiatry article), a statement that evokes the irritatingly schematic quality Ian McEwan's books...

A large white feather floats high above the stage, the deceptively peaceful opening symbol of Pan Asian Repertory Theatre's new production of the intergenerational drama, "The Joy Luck Club."In the prologue, a Chinese immigrant-mother expresses her wish to one day tell her American-born daughter, "This...

Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits "Leader of the Band" and "Same Old Lang Syne" helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was 56.His death was announced in a statement released by his...

In the following review, Dinnage argues that Enduring Love is an efficient, gripping examination of such themes as “guilt and love and fear.”

In the following review, Eder finds major flaws in the uneven narrative energy and invented case study in Enduring Love.

In the following review, Sayers offers a positive assessment of Enduring Love, but notes that the novel's philosophical ideas and thematic tensions ultimately give way to the demands of narrative movement.

Essay discusses the clash between science and religion in "Enduring Love" by Ian McEwan.

Analyzes Chapter 24 and Appendices 1 and 2 of the novel, Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan. Describes how each appendix provides an alternative ending to the story. Contrasts each alternative ending with the actual ending of the novel.