“Solar” (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 287 pages, $26.95), by Ian McEwan: It is hard to like Michael Beard, a physicist whose work exploring the nature of light once earned him a Nobel Prize, but who now ...

Ian McEwan is on safe ground having a Nobel physicist as the central character of his new novel, "Solar," since most of us have no idea what Nobel winners are like. However, McEwan's hero, Michael ...

Ian McEwan isn't generally known as a comic writer, but the sections of his new book he read aloud last night at the Manhattan 92nd Street Y had the audience laughing heartily. McEwan was in town to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Ian McEwan, renowned for serious literary prose, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction on Tuesday for his novel "Solar." David Campbell, judge and publisher ...

Ian McEwan, Author, read by Josephine Bailey. Publishing Mills $24.95 (, abridged, four cassettes, 6 hrs., $24.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-57511-113-1 British actress Bailey delivers a superb reading of ...

It’s been a difficult few months for climate scientists. There were the stolen e-mails of Climategate that purported to show an attempt to cover up data disputing global warming, the much ballyhooed ...

"Solar" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 287 pages, $26.95), by Ian McEwan: It is hard to like Michael Beard, a physicist whose work exploring the nature of light once earned him a Nobel Prize, but who now ...