The year is 2119. The world as we know it has been ravaged and reconfigured. The first catastrophe occurred in the middle of the 21st century when a Russian missile, aimed at New Mexico, fell well ...

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 ...

The novelist, who wrote about World War II in “Atonement” and has turned repeatedly to his own times, imagines the 22nd ...

But there’s one aspect of McEwan’s fiction that can drive the reader stark mad. He loves to pull the narrative rug from under ...

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When novelists look to the future, the view is often grim. The British author’s 19th novel, published Tuesday in the U.S. by ...

His new novel, “What We Can Know,” imagines the historians of the twenty-second century, who long for the world that they’ve ...

In the future, Britain is partly submerged by rising seas – but what do people remember of the past? NPR's Scott Simon talks to British author Ian McEwan about his new novel, "What We Can Know." ...

Dystopian fiction is now a firm fixture in our literary landscape. Ian McEwan’s stylish, cunning “What We Can Know” takes a ...

In Ian McEwan’s novel, a scholar from the future researches a dinner party in our era—a gathering that may unlock a literary treasure.

Selected by Jennifer Trevelyan, the author of the novel ”A Beautiful Family.” ...

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