In the following review, Brookner praises Enduring Love for its effective use of “psychological terrorism,” McEwan's patient building of conflict and suspense, and the book'...
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In the following review of Enduring Love, Craig criticizes the novel's schematic opposition of science and religion.
Is love the subject or object? Is it love that endures or love that must ...
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In the following review, Johnson extols the descriptive opening portions of Enduring Love, praising McEwan's ability to delineate events with precision.
As a storyteller, British author Ian ...
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In the following review, Eder finds major flaws in the uneven narrative energy and invented case study in Enduring Love.
It begins [in Enduring Love] with dazzling cinematic bravura. Joe and Claris...
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In the following review, Taylor offers an unfavorable assessment of Enduring Love, asserting that McEwan's style and structure in the novel is overbearing and repetitive.
“The patholo...
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In the following review, Dinnage argues that Enduring Love is an efficient, gripping examination of such themes as “guilt and love and fear.”
After six previous novels and two books o...
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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 narrati...
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In the following review of Enduring Love, Bien commends McEwan's literary skill, but finds the novel weakened by its dependence on plot for its impetus.
One does not appreciate how cynical I...
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One critic may believe that the essential clash in the novel is between the scientific and religious approach to life. This is easily said considering the lifestyles of the main two characters, ...
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Chapter twenty-four offers the readers quite a conventional fairy-tale ending, providing a rather satisfactory conclusion. It ends on an up-lifting note, with the children symbolising hope in the futu...
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MUMBAI, Jan 30 (Reuters) - A new Bollywood epic will
recreate the Mughal-era romance of a Muslim emperor and a Hindu
princess, a marriage of power that fed popular folklores about
how enduring lov...
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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...
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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. H...
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ON CHESIL BEACHBy Ian McEwan Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 208 pages, $22
As far as I can tell, there’s not a single weak sentence in Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach. O.K., it’s a very sh...
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AWAY FROM HER Running Time 110 minutes Written and Directed by Sarah Polley Starring Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent
The subject of aging, illness and letting go are not mainstream subjects for...
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On the 100th anniversary of John Wayne's birth, the Duke still swaggers through the American psyche as not just an actor, but a patriot _ his centennial spawning fond remembrance, and perhaps a few...
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Do you know about this: the whole black-hole/B-flat revelation? It’s pretty amazing, and it’s been out there for a while (it’s, you know, out there on another level, of course) an...
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Do you know about this: the whole black-hole/B-flat revelation? It’s pretty amazing, and it’s been out there for a while (it’s, you know, out there on another level, of course) an...
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Critical Review by Anita Brookner
Is the Essential Clash in the Novel between a Scientific or Spiritual Approach to Life?
Mughal era comes alive in India king's fabled love
