It takes a lion's nerve to rewrite "Hamlet" from the viewpoint of a fetus, a stunt conceived and sweetly achieved by Ian McEwan in his latest novel, "Nutshell." McEwan's 197-page thimble brims with ...

It takes a lion’s nerve to rewrite “Hamlet” from the viewpoint of a fetus, a stunt conceived and sweetly achieved by Ian McEwan in his latest novel, “Nutshell.” McEwan’s 197-page thimble brims with ...

Ian McEwan's fetal Hamlet is an extravagant spirit confined to the womb while his mother and uncle plot. But he is no sweet prince; the book... There are more dumb Shakespeare adaptations on heaven ...

NUTSHELL, by Ian McEwan. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 197 pp., $24.95. The premise of an in utero narrator, listening in horror as his mother plots with her lover to murder the baby’s father seems like it ...

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, ...

Ian McEwan’s latest novel, one of the Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2025, is a literary mystery about a scholar’s search for a long-lost poem. In December, the Book Review Book Club will read and ...

Ian McEwan, Author, read by Josephine Bailey. Publishing Mills $24.95 (, abridged, four cassettes, 6 hrs., $24.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-57511-113-1 British actress Bailey delivers a superb reading of ...

Ian McEwan's latest novel Nutshell tells the story from the point of view of a foetus. Sausage Party is the sweariest, most vulgar cartoon film you will ever have seen. From the imagination of Seth ...