Speaking at Hay festival as UK breaks May heat record, author says optimism is a ‘moral duty’
Pessimism is probably “a bigger problem than climate change”, said the novelist Ian McEwan on Monday after…
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Who’s in, who’s out, and how many have you read? The story behind our 100 best novels list ⊕
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Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights; Ulysses or Catch-22 … Find out which title came top, as chosen by authors, critics and academics worldwide
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As Stephen King points out, compiling…
3 months ago
‘Loaded’ water is hyped as a secret to hydration. But adding electrolytes is merely time down the drain | Antiviral ⊖
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The average person does not need to be adding electrolytes to their water
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4 months ago
Reading was the key to breaking through the fog of my parents' dementia | Jo Glanville ⊖
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It was hard to communicate with my mother or father, until reading a book out loud led to a discovery
The novelist Ian McEwan has advocated for the extension of assisted dying to people with dementia,…
Ian McEwan calls for assisted dying rights to extend to dementia sufferers ⊖⊖
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The author, whose family has been impacted by dementia, says provision in living wills could clarify intentions when a person declines to the point they are ‘alive and dead all at once’
Legalised assi…
6 months ago
The best books of 2025 ⊕⊕
New novels from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ian McEwan, plus the return of Slow Horses and Margaret Atwood looks back … Guardian critics pick the must-read titles of 2025
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The best fiction of 2025 ⊕⊕
New novels from Ian McEwan and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a high-concept debut and remarkable short stories are just some of the best new titles of the year
There aren’t many giants of 20th-century lit…
7 months ago
Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan pours fury on everyday item we all have in our homes: 'This is a derangement' ⊖
Booker Prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan has hit out at one of modern life's most common habits calling it 'deranged'.
8 months ago
Venetian Vespers by John Banville review – a haunting honeymoon ○
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This brooding tale of an Englishman’s downfall in fin-de-siècle Venice is memorably eerie – but it’s hard to care about such a pompous protagonist
Many years ago, a sober-minded friend warned me off g…
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan review – the limits of liberalism ○
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A century from now, a literature scholar pieces together a picture of our times in a novel that quietly compels us to consider the moral consequences of global catastrophe
The sheer Englishness of Ian…