Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These days, McEwan is a household name and a fully signed-up member of the literary elite, nominated six times for the Booker, ...

When novelists look to the future, the view is often grim. There are a lot more fictional dystopias than utopias. Ian McEwan has good news and bad news about what lies ahead in “ What We Can Know,” a ...