ian mcewan

The Erotic Disruption of the Self in Paul Schrader’s ‘The Comfort of Strangers’

/ 10 August 2020

Paul Schrader’s The Comfort of Strangers presents the discomfiting encounter with another —someone like you—and yet entirely unlike you, mysterious to you, unknown and unknowable.

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Ian McEwan’s Brexit Satire, ‘The Cockroach’, Leaves Little to the Imagination

Christopher John Stephens

/ 21 January 2020

With his latest, The Cockroach, the otherwise masterful British novelist Ian McEwan proves that too much cleverness can kill satire.

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A Man, a Woman, a Brooding Replicant and Readership: On Ian McEwan’s ‘Machines Like Me’

Christopher John Stephens

/ 29 May 2019

Purists who see Ian McEwan's comments about science fiction and his novel, Machines Like Me, as a slight against their beloved literary genre are missing the point.

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Telling Stories: The Craft of Narrative and the Writing Life

Christopher John Stephens

/ 11 October 2017

Equal parts textbook, memoir, and reflection on the writing process, this is a cogent, realistic, and inspirational advice for professional and novice writers of all sorts.

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