https://nicemachine.net.au/tags/ian-mcewan/ Recent content in Ian McEwan on nicemachine Hugo -- gohugo.io en-au Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://nicemachine.net.au/book/2026-what-we-can-know/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://nicemachine.net.au/book/2026-what-we-can-know/ I bounced off this after a few chapters, annoyed by the show-off intellectualism of the characters and subject. McEwan seems to often frustrate with cleverness over story, and this seemed to be the case here. After talking it over with another reader I gave it a second chance, and I’m pleased now to have read it. The novel is set in a post climate-disaster world where society continues albeit in a far more basic manner, though this is all secondary to the development of the story.