In his 19th novel, ‘What We Can Know,’ the ‘Atonement’ writer looks back on our era from the distant future—with bemusement.

The first seed of inspiration for Ian McEwan’s newest novel, What We Can Know, was a poem by John Fuller that ran in the ...

On one of these archipelagoes, a literary scholar named Thomas Metcalf searches through historical archives for a copy of a legendary poem, composed by a 20th-century poet, Francis Blundy, honoring ...

Ian McEwan has shared his hopes for how humankind "will scrape through" amid ongoing climate change fears. The British author ...

In the future, Britain is partly submerged by rising seas – but what do people remember of the past? NPR's Scott Simon talks ...

Alamo Drafthouse Omaha will play “Atonement” at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 21 as part of its Novel Pictures series. The monthly series — a partnership with Omaha Public Library — picks a movie based on a book.

Ahead of his 18th novel, our critic ranks McEwan’s books from worst to best. How do the likes of Amsterdam, Saturday and ...

One of the greatest World War 2 films of all time is on BBC Two tonight and will be streaming for a limited time afterwards.

The artists who adapted Ian McEwan’s devastating novel Atonement to the screen have done, by all objective measures, a sterling job of stuffing everything into their movie’s two-hour frame: the major ...