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 ...

In fact that response is probably at least partly intentional. For while Nutshell is, like all of McEwan’s novels, a work of considerable complexity, it is also a deliberately playful book, fully ...

The literary master’s 17th book, titled Nutshell, is released next week and suffice it to say the protagonist is not your average third-trimester foetus, head engaged and contentedly sucking his thumb ...

The truth doesn't come easy in the latest works of these two household names. Meanwhile, anglophiles now have access to newly ...

The English novelist Ian McEwan turned 77 this summer—“on that last bit of slippery slope to 80, where you can no longer pretend to be 32,” he says—and he seems to be contemplating his legacy more and ...