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Her new Ballett Zürich production based on Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement brings a tricksy narrative to the stage
The self-help industry suggests all mistakes in life are retrievable. Middle age teaches us otherwise
Laura Battle selects her must-read titles
The author’s 17th novel hinges on a boy’s relationship with his teacher and its echoes throughout his life
On a hike in the Cotswolds, the novelist talks about the ethics of AI, his Brexit obsession — and the ‘profound refreshment’ he finds in walking
By ridiculing the absurdity of Brexit, the author may achieve the opposite effect
A new genre of futurist nostalgia emerges in a technically masterful if occasionally bloodless novel
Ian McEwan’s script transforms his introspective novella about love lost into a more expansive study of obsessive longing
Richard Eyre directs this overwrought adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel
At 50, the literary award has consistently delivered good longlists and shortlists, but it hasn’t been without its critics
An adaptation of Ian McEwan’s story that looks handsome but doesn’t quite add up
The Nobel Prize winner has proved unusually consistent and enduring
Dialogue reveals all that is said, unsaid and unsayable
A North London retelling of ‘Hamlet’, recounted from the perspective of a baby in utero
We await his judgment on Labour under Corbyn, the malaise of Europe and technology’s dark potential
The printing press has been replaced by social media, writes John Sutherland
Religion comes under the hammer in Ian McEwan’s latest
Jared Harris is in his element in this thriller from Britain’s revived Hammer studios
The writer Nadifa Mohamed tells Feargus O’Sullivan of life in two worlds
We are missing a British writer to whom we can turn and learn from at moments of national consequence or crisis
FT books editor Lorien Kite on Granta’s latest selection of the Best of Young British Novelists
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