Whether with an old-fashioned one-case-per-episode or a more sprawling multistrand story, quaint or violent, historic or ...

In his latest novel, Ian McEwan imagines a future world after a century’s worth of disasters. The good news in “What We Can Know” is that humanity still exists, which McEwan calls “nuanced optimism.” ...

In December, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Ian McEwan’s latest novel, about a long-lost poem, the 2014 dinner party where it was read and the future dystopia that embraced it. By MJ ...

Agatha Christie was a legend... but there are plenty of other brilliant writers from the hey-day of British crime fiction ...

Published in 1973, Agatha Christie's final novel features the final appearance of a dynamic detective duo and has yet to be adapted.

Miss Jamaica took a shocking tumble during the Miss Universe preliminary evening gown round in Thailand. Dr. Gabrielle Henry was strolling across the stage in a long, flowing orange gown when she ...

Miss Universe pageant executive Nawat Itsaragrisil broke down crying after issuing an apology for the controversial exchange he shared with Miss Mexico earlier this week. “I am human. I didn’t want to ...

Dame Agatha Christie's detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple have joined the world of the Mr Men and Little Miss series. The first two titles, which draw inspiration from two of the celebrated ...

The novelist, who wrote about World War II in “Atonement” and has turned repeatedly to his own times, imagines the 22nd century in his new book, “What We Can Know.” The novelist, who wrote about World ...

At the start of “What We Can Know,” Ian McEwan’s eighteenth novel, the year is 2119 and the humanities are still in crisis. Thomas Metcalfe, a scholar of the literature of 1990 to 2030, props up his ...

In our fiercely tribal and divisive culture, when consensus is illusory and we can’t seem to agree on even the most fundamental facts, the notion of shared history as a societal precept has left the ...

Over the course of his career, Ian McEwan has become known for a variety of memorable set pieces: events, random or spectacular or apparently banal, that seem to crystallize, or catalyze, his ...