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 ...

Ian McEwan's fetal Hamlet is an extravagant spirit confined to the womb while his mother and uncle plot. But he is no sweet prince; the book... There are more dumb Shakespeare adaptations on heaven ...

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 ...

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 recent years Ian McEwan’s fiction has been playful and inventive. “Nutshell” (published in 2016) was an audacious restyling of “Hamlet” that featured as its narrator a garrulous, erudite unborn ...

Like her first novel, this one is not immediately easy to read. The England-born, Ireland-raised Irish writer, who names James Joyce as her model, uses a sort of raging stream of consciousness — it ...