The pipeline the publishing world manages quite reliably to maintain flowing is pumping along as predictably as usual, but three works nearing publication in the next several weeks may well ...

Ian McEwan, Author, read by Josephine Bailey. Publishing Mills $24.95 (, abridged, four cassettes, 6 hrs., $24.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-57511-113-1 British actress Bailey delivers a superb reading of ...

Ian McEwan, Britian’s acclaimed novelist, takes a day in the life of two young virgins, freshly married in the pre-sexual-revolution summer of 1962, and transforms it into a poignant novella called ...

“Lessons,” by Ian McEwan (Alfred A. Knopf) “Roland occasionally reflected on the events and accidents, personal and global, minuscule and momentous that had formed and determined ...

In 'The Children Act,' Ian McEwan takes a difficult approach to a midlife crisis: He follows the wife's journey, upending expectations.

The title of Ian McEwan's smart and elegant novel, The Children Act, sounds awkward – perhaps its only odd note. Blame the British Parliament. That's what it called the 1989 law aimed at ...

The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, set in part in the 22nd century and centered on a scholar’s immersion into a poem written during happier times.

In his 14th book, Ian McEwan opens his story with a dash of sexual heat: "He belongs to that class of men -- vaguely unprepossessing, often bald, short, fat, clever -- who were unaccountably ...

McEwan seems conscious of his flag bearer’s role. In a recent essay in The New York Review of Books, he proposed that the literary world is now coming to the end of a “golden age” of fiction ...

If you're a student who's been assigned to write an essay about an Ian McEwan novel, there's one person you shouldn't ask for help: Ian McEwan.

That one sentence in Ian McEwan’s new novel, “Lessons,” nicely sums up the book. When we first meet Roland Baines he is a new parent, struggling to his raise his son alone.