Ian McEwan is very much a product of the new British universities, those popularly known as "plate-glass universities" to distinguish them from the older "red-brick universities" at which writers such...
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Ian McEwan first came to public notice in 1975; he was immediately recognized as an important and new voice on the fictional scene. Along with Martin Amis and Julian Barnes, his contemporaries, he is ...
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In the following review, Reynolds proposes that each of McEwan's novels follows a template of three parts revolving around a male-female relationship, an external threat to that relationship, a...
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In the following essay, Morrison examines aspects of time, gender identity, and historical memory in Black Dogs and Enduring Love, particularly as informed by Paul Ricoeur's Time and Narrative ...
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Critical Essay by Helen Harris
The events which take place in Ian McEwan's first novel, The Cement Garden, are as apparently unnatural, though less gratuitously so, as in most of the stories i...
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British author Ian McEwan defended himself against criticism that his book, "On Chesil Beach," which has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is too short to count as a novel.At just over 200...
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When Canadians Attack: Forget Saturday afternoon power yoga followed by a three-hour nap: Canadian wunderkinds the Arcade Fire swoop into town, hipster doofus heads explode, and the under-30 popul...
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Asian authors, including a Malaysian and a Chinese writer,
featured strongly on the ''longlist'' of the prestigious literary Man
Booker Prize, the judges of the 2007 competition announced Wed...
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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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At different times in New York on June 1, Christopher Hitchens and Ian McEwan, literary giants whose close friendship has been much remarked upon in the press, were discussing each other in separat...
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American and British films dominate this year's Venice film festival, including Brian De Palma's "Redacted" and Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited."Of the 22 movies vying for the Golden Lion, a...
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The tragic period romance "Atonement" dominated the race for the British Academy Film Awards, with nominations in 14 categories, including best picture, actor, actress and director."No Country for ...
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“Of all the classes,” wrote John Kenneth Galbraith, “the wealthy are the most noticed and the least studied.” That’s certain to change as the latest, most fecund Ameri...
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Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.The $120,000 prize...
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Ian (Russell) McEwan
Critical Review by Oliver Reynolds
Short novel is OK with Ian McEwan
