Books of the decade: your best books of 2001
Nov 19, 2009 10:00:24 Saturday, Ian McEwan's post-9/11 novel, was four years away, and his Booker disappointment this year was for Atonement. Its story of a young girl who ruins ...
That Was The Decade That Was
Nov 27, 2009 10:16:54 Ian McEwan's Atonement and Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin excelled ethically and aesthetically, lighting up modern concerns about childhood ...
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
Nov 14, 2009 19:06:25 The narrator of Ian McEwan's Atonement worries that art can't atone for the errors and crimes of art, because its solutions are fictional and illusory; ...