Ian McEwan’s ‘What We Can Know’ depicts life in a world ravaged by climate change

Ian McEwan’s ‘What We Can Know’ depicts life in a world ravaged by climate change


Ian McEwan, Author, "What We Can Know": I'm trying to get in the reader's mind the past and the future and the present into some kind of mix, kind of timeless sense that you can get your mind around all three together. What's the future of history or the humanities or the future of love, for example, or the daily life that I — I don't want people getting in and out of spaceships. This one thought, that my children or grandchildren won't have as good a life as me, and I hear it a lot in connection to climate change, and I think we stand on the edge of a portal, a gateway.

Author: Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport


Published at: 2025-10-08 22:25:37

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