Hugh MarlowA Cliché Tale with a Superficial Gimmick: Ian McEwan’s ‘Nutshell’ (6/10)Trudy has taken her ex-husband’s brother as a lover and plots to murder her ex-husband. Okay, we’ve heard that one to death. What’s new…Jun 20
Sean HaylockLove and Character on Chesil BeachThis essay was written in early 2016 as part of a larger project.Mar 29, 2019
Ben PeasleyIan McEwan’s ‘Lessons’: ReviewHistory and life are two sides of the same coin in this fragmented and far-reaching coming-of-age epicJun 7Jun 7
Isabelle LeanHamlet & McEwan’s Nutshell — the idea of AgencyWhat do these stories have in common?Jun 18, 2020Jun 18, 2020
Hugh MarlowA Cliché Tale with a Superficial Gimmick: Ian McEwan’s ‘Nutshell’ (6/10)Trudy has taken her ex-husband’s brother as a lover and plots to murder her ex-husband. Okay, we’ve heard that one to death. What’s new…Jun 20
Sean HaylockLove and Character on Chesil BeachThis essay was written in early 2016 as part of a larger project.Mar 29, 2019
Ben PeasleyIan McEwan’s ‘Lessons’: ReviewHistory and life are two sides of the same coin in this fragmented and far-reaching coming-of-age epicJun 7
Isabelle LeanHamlet & McEwan’s Nutshell — the idea of AgencyWhat do these stories have in common?Jun 18, 2020
Meg FultonIntimacy and Toxic Gender Roles in McEwan’s The Comfort of StrangersThe 1981 novel explores the sinister side of patriarchal gender roles through the dark sexuality and fractured psyches of its antagonists.Aug 15, 2023
Daire O'CriodainDementia drives from dusk to darknessI have previously confessed that, since COVID laid siege to our lives, my reading largely retreated away from new explorations to the…Oct 7, 2020
Rachel Zorn KindermannA review of Lessons by Ian McEwanAs Ian McEwan fans go, I’m a bit late to the party. Just about every work of his I’ve enjoyed, I’ve read several years after publication…Aug 10, 2023