Ian Mcewan

Ian McShane, Zachary Levi & More: Today's Famous Birthdays

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.29.2011

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In a world with nearly 7 billion people, chances are someone famous is celebrating their birthday today. And indeed: Ian McShane, Zachary Levi, and...

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Fifteen of This Millennium's Top Novels

Dave Astor | Posted 10.29.2011

These aren't necessarily the best novels of the past 11 years, because there are acclaimed books I've yet to read.

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The 10 Best Literary Picnics

The Observer | Kate Kellaway | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Virginia Woolf, Emma, Joan Lindsay, To the Lighthouse, Ian McEwan, Women in Love, Anton Chekhov, Jane Austen, Martin Amis, Picnics, DH Lawrence, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Literary Picnics, Books News

In a boat, in the nude, with cold chicken, warm bananas, Mr Knightley or Mole…...

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Required Reading: Devastatingly Sad Books

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.12.2011

We’re the first to admit that, sometimes, the best cure for a hard week, a long day or just a rainy weekend is a really sad book....

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Looking For Great Books For Your LIbrary? Try 4 Decades Of NBCC Winners (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, Images, Toni Morrison, Ian McEwan, Literary Prizes, Nbcc, National Book Critics Circle, Cormac McCarthy, Slidepollajax, Philip Roth, Books News

The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards have been around since the 1970s and the winners over the decades make an impressive recommended readin...

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Writers, Writing on Writing: The Best American Essays 2010

Joe Woodward | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Best American Essays, Ian McEwan, Michel De Montaigne, Writers, Nathanael West, Christopher Hitchens, Essays, Books News

These 21 essays "defy" rather than "define" the sometimes accused staid genre of the essay -- writing that can be too dry and too full of argument.

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Novelist Ian McEwan Criticizes Israel During Acceptance Of Israeli Literary Prize

AP | DANIEL ESTRIN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Atonement, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Prize, Literary Prizes, Israeli Literary Prize, Ian McEwan, Ian Mcewan Criticizes, Books News

JERUSALEM — Renowned British novelist Ian McEwan accepted an Israeli literary prize in Jerusalem Sunday with harsh criticism of Jewish settlemen...

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Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's 'Solar'

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michiko Kakutani, Newspaper Reviewing, Solar, Postmodern Fiction, Fiction, British Fiction, Literary Criticism, Morality, Ron Charles, Book Reviewing, Atonement, Global Warming, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Franzen, Books News

What American reviewers have missed is that satire and history are coming together for the first time in McEwan's career.

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Inflation May Be Under Control, But Watch Out for Conflation

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Electric Prunes, Brangelina, Raspberries, Tomkat, Katie Holmes, Strawberries, John Boehner, Red Hot Chili Peppers, President Obama, George W. Bush, Angelina Jolie, Strawbs, Facebook, Bananarama, Ben Affleck, Christian, Moby Grape, Brendan Nyhan, Bennifer, Einstein, Brad Pitt, Ian McEwan, Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Palin, Republican, New York Times, Tom Cruise, Muslim, Good Morning America, Orwell, Islam, Jan Brewer, The Koran, Politics News

As a 22 year-old cub reporter for a music magazine, I freaked when my boss assigned me to interview "'The Strawberries,' a very important group," whic...

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Should A Book Pass The "Dead Tree" Test?

Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Free Books, Godin, Book Publishing, Ian McEwan, Physics, The Edge, Chris Anderson, Atonement, Free eBooks, Free-Ebooks, Human Genome, What Matters, Books News

Do you feel strongly enough about the impact of what you have to say that you can live with cutting down trees to make your book?

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Booker Longlist Goes Mainstream: 'The Slap' Leads List of Strong Sellers

The Bookseller | Philip Stone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, Authors, Booker Longlist, Christos Tsiolkas, Ian McEwan, Books, The Slap, Bookselling, David Mitchell, Booker Prize, Literary Prizes, Books News

This year's Man Booker longlist is the strongest-selling since 2001, with Christos Tsiolkas' The Slap (Tuskar Rock) by the far the most popular of the...

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Ian McEwan: Americans Are 'Profoundly Bored' By Climate Change

Telegraph | Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Reviews, Nobel Prize, Ian McEwan, Atonement, Global Warming, Climate Change, Ian Mcewan Solar, Books News

McEwan blamed American apathy for the negative reviews afforded to Solar, his satire about global warming. The New York Times critic dismissed Solar ...

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Ian McEwan Is England's Best Writer. His New Books Disappoint. His First Books Thrill. So Go Back.

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Atonement was the high point. Saturday was a good idea, but the last half is ludicrous --- a Lifetime movie plot. You'd never know of On Chesil Be...

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Most Anticipated Summer Reading 2010

The Millions | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Summer Reading, Don Delillo, Ian McEwan, Roberto Bolano, Books, Jonathon Franzen, Reading List, David Mitchell, Salman Rushdie, Reading, Best Sellers, Books News

2010 has already been a strong year for fiction lovers, with new novels by the likes of Joshua Ferris, Don DeLillo, Ian McEwan, Lionel Shriver, Jennif...

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Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ian Mcewan Solar, Solar, Ian McEwan, Books, On Chesil Beach, Atonement, Saturday, New York Review of Books, New Ian McEwan, Books News

Michael Wood The New York Review of Books The Fat Man's Vengeance "Solar" by Ian McEwan Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 287 pp., $26.95 "He had it coming,...

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London Book Fair: Hollywood Scouts Crawling, But Are They Buying?

Variety | Adam Dawtrey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Publishing, Werewolf, Book Fair, Book Agent, Atonement, London, Option, Ian McEwan, Bestsellers, Frankfurt, Book Adaptation, Hollywood Agent, Curtis Brown, Harry Potter, Lovely Bones, Books News

The London Book Fair has overtaken its rival in Frankfurt as the destination of choice for Hollywood scouts looking for books to turn into films or TV...

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David Shields' Reality Hunger: Kicking Ass and Dropping Names (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michiko Kakutani, Literature, Radio, David Shields, Novels, Conversation, Aphorisms, Theory, Academia, Christopher Lydon, Brown University, Ian McEwan, Books News

David Shields practices what he preaches. Aphorisms in the Nietzsche manner are the coin of the literary realm that surfaces in his manifesto, Reality Hunger.

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Are Book To Film Adaptations In Decline?

Variety | Tatiana Siegel, Josh Getlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ian McEwan, Stieg Larsson, Book Adaptations, Books, Literary Adaptations, Cormac McCarthy, Book Adaptation, Bestsellers, Books to Movies, Movies, Books News

As the adult-skewing drama becomes an endangered species at the studios, is there any hope for that venerable subcategory, the literary-book-to-screen...

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Ian McEwan's 'Solar'

AP | MONICA RHOR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Review, Ian McEwan, Ian Mcewan Solar, Michael Beard, New Books, Solar, Books, Global Warming, Physicist, Books News

"Solar" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 287 pages, $26.95), by Ian McEwan: It is hard to like Michael Beard, a physicist whose work exploring the nature of ...

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Ten Books That Influenced Me: In a Blink

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011

When I got my MA in English Lit I had to read more than 100 great works. I was 22, and didn't have much of an idea about the great themes or historical context. I was overwhelmed and pretty clueless. But the following books changed my life

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Hay Festival In UK Brings 'Mongrel Mix' Of Authors And Intellectuals

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.25.2011

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HAY-ON-WYE, Wales — British industry is a shadow of its former self, the deficit is enormous, public services are facing huge cuts and London's ...

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'Solar': Ian McEwan's Comic Take On Global Warming

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — A warming planet, deadlocked politicians, feuding scientists. The headlines about climate change are a source of worry and satisfaction...

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Book Review Roundup

Posted 05.25.2011

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Did you miss the weekend's book reviews? Check out some of the highlights below. "The Lotus Eaters," Tatjana Soli The New York Times If it sounds a...

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Ian McEwan Wins Comic Fiction Prize, Gets To Take Home A Pig

The Guardian | Marina Lewycka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pigs, Ian McEwan, Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, Literary Prizes, Comic Writing, Books, Gloucester Old Spot, Marina Lewycka, Books News

This week, Ian McEwan won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction. His reward? Some champagne and a Gloucester Old Spot piglet, named...

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Ian McEwan: Why 'Solar' Was Rejected By The American Literary Establishment

Telegraph | Lorna Bradbury | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Science Writing, Michiko Kakutani, Book Review, Ian McEwan, Ian Mcewan Solar, Solar, Author Interviews, Books, Global Warming, Books News

"Americans don't like an unattractive character who is not redeemed at the centre of a novel," he says. "And maybe it's a matter of British humour too...

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