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Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan's novels include "Enduring Love", "Atonement" and "On Chesil Beach".

From the NS archive: Do you dare like this book?

3 March 1989: The challenge the fatwa against Salman Rushdie sets all writers.

By Ian McEwan

From the NS archive: Do you dare like this book?

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Wrestling with Orwell: Ian McEwan on the art of the political novel – Audio Long Reads

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Wrestling with Orwell: Ian McEwan on the art of the political novel – Audio Long Reads

What the 20th-century author teaches us about politics and the imagination in a time of crisis.

By Ian McEwan and Adrian Bradley

George Orwell outside the whale

What the writer teaches us about politics and the imagination in a time of crisis.

By Ian McEwan

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