Ian McEwan

“Solitude is one of the great luxuries of civilisation. It has become, by our own careless volition, by our elective enslavement to the wonders of the internet - a shrinking asset.”

2022-01-18

“Then, a matter of vital concern to writers and readers: globally, freedom of expression is becoming a diminishing privilege.”

2022-01-18

“Now the technology - face recognition software and the rest - is on hand, China might perfect the Orwellian totalitarian state and offer a new model of social organization to compete with or replace liberal democracies”

2022-01-18

“It's a rather extraordinary and unusual book. It addresses some fundamental matters of interest to those of us whose education has been in the humanities. It's a book that has received very little attention as far as I…”

2017-09-03, book, by Edward Slingerland, recommended

“I have a careless theory that the poetry of Larkin has had a profound effect on the prose writing of my generation. There are many writers of my age who are steeped in Larkin and, like me, incorporate the cadences of…”

2017-09-03, book, by Philip Larkin, loved

“Updike has been a very important writer for me, the one I've admired most, read most, and returned to most often.”

2017-09-03, book, by John Updike, loved