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Ian McEwan

July 2024

  • ‘We need a cultural economy that can sustain a career in the arts’ … Bayadère: The Ninth Life by Shobana Jeyasingh.

    ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

  • Louis Calhern, Harpo Marx and Chico Marx starring in the 1933 film Duck Soup.

    The Guardian view on the power of brevity in the arts: an antidote to the blather of politics

March 2024

  • 2001, LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWS<br>IAN MCKELLEN Character(s): Gandalf the Grey Film 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING; THE LORD OF THE RINGS I' (2001) Directed By PETER JACKSON 10 December 2001 CTL37461 Allstar/NEW LINE CINEMA (USA/NZ 2001) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of NEW LINE CINEMA and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To NEW LINE CINEMA is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    When an outgoing Tory minister like Robert Halfon channels Gandalf, the magic of Tolkien begins to pall

    Alex Clark
    From hippies to death metal and MPs, one book seems to rule them all but, oh, how I wish it didn’t

February 2024

  • FRANCE-LITERATURE-PORTRAIT<br>English novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan poses during a photo session in Paris, on October 2, 2023. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP) (Photo by JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

    Royal Society of Literature refers itself to Charity Commission as authors pen petition

    After months of criticism and an open letter signed by Ian McEwan and Alan Hollinghurst the charity confirms referral is in process

October 2023

  • Ian McEwan.

    Ian McEwan criticises hiring of ‘sensitivity readers’ looking for offensive material in manuscripts

    Booker-winning novelist describes the process of screening out things that might offend readers as ‘mass hysterias’ and ‘moral panics’ that ‘sweep through populations every now and then’

September 2023

  • Julian Barnes.

    ‘I didn’t think it was possible to be a novelist’: Julian Barnes on literature, loss – and his late friend Martin Amis

    The Booker winning author talks about how his most recent work was inspired by Hilary Mantel, and the way the books world has changed since his debut was published more than 40 years ago

July 2023

  • Ian McEwan.

    Audiobook of the week
    Lessons by Ian McEwan review – chance, memory and the road not taken

    Actor Simon McBurney narrates the tale of how a sexual relationship between a teenage boy and his piano teacher changes the course of his life

June 2023

  • Composite of book covers

    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Stephen King, Kamila Shamsie and more

  • Martin Amis

    Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Anna Wintour honoured in king’s birthday list

April 2023

  • Ian McEwan at a literature festival in Cologne, Germany, in March

    BBC under threat politically under Conservatives, says Ian McEwan

    Novelist compares UK to Hungary in Radio Times interview, while Ken Bruce criticises handling of Radio 2 exit

January 2023

  • Sally Rooney.

    Man pleads guilty to stealing more than 1,000 manuscripts

    Filippo Bernardini impersonated agents and publishers to target works from writers including Atwood, McEwan and Rooney

December 2022

  • James McAvoy as Lord Asriel in Philip Pullman’s fantasy series His Dark Materials.

    James McAvoy opens up about his ‘slight’ issue with British writers

    The actor, now starring in His Dark Materials, says his confidence plunged when Ian McEwan and Zadie Smith questioned his casting in previous roles

October 2022

  • Indelicacy by Anna Cain, An Experiment in Love by HIlary Mantel, Just Ignore by Alan Davies.

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October

    Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

September 2022

  • Ian McEwan.

    Ian McEwan: ‘The perfect novella is always just out of my reach’

    The Atonement author answers your questions on why he continues to write to what he would do if he wasn’t a novelist
  • McEwan shows self-interrogative courage in Lessons.

    Lessons by Ian McEwan review – life-and-times epic of a feckless boomer

    McEwan takes aim at the postwar generation in this old-fashioned but generous and humane portrait of individual indecision against the backdrop of history

    • Book of the day
      Lessons by Ian McEwan review – this boy’s life

    • Ian McEwan on ageing, legacy and the attack on his friend Salman Rushdie: ‘It’s beyond the edge of human cruelty’

    • Send us your questions for Ian McEwan

August 2022

  • L-r: Robert Harris, Maggie O’Farrell, Ian McEwan, Kamila Shamsie, William Boyd, Kate Atkinson, Cormac McCarthy.

    Seven big-hitter books for autumn 2022, from Maggie O’Farrell to Cormac McCarthy

    It’s going to be a vintage autumn for fiction, with new novels from some of our finest writers. Here’s our essential guide

July 2022

  • Justine Jordan

    The Booker longlist is thoughtfully curated and gives Alan Garner overdue recognition

    Justine Jordan
    Form is a preoccupation of the 13-strong selection, which highlights books from small presses in favour of work from more famous names
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