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25 Modern Classics That’ll Actually Wreck You (In the Best Way)
25 modern classic books that belong on every reading list, from gut-punch literary fiction to genre-bending thrillers. Cormac McCarthy, Zadie Smith, Gillian Flynn, and more. These aren't dusty assignments, they're the books people are still talking about. Here's your no-BS guide to what's actually worth reading. -
25 Modern Classics That’ll Actually Wreck You (In the Best Way)
25 modern classic books that belong on every reading list, from gut-punch literary fiction to genre-bending thrillers. Cormac McCarthy, Zadie Smith, Gillian Flynn, and more. These aren't dusty assignments, they're the books people are still talking about. Here's your no-BS guide to what's actually worth reading. -
25 Modern Classics That’ll Actually Wreck You (In the Best Way)
25 modern classic books that belong on every reading list, from gut-punch literary fiction to genre-bending thrillers. Cormac McCarthy, Zadie Smith, Gillian Flynn, and more. These aren't dusty assignments, they're the books people are still talking about. Here's your no-BS guide to what's actually worth reading. -
25 Modern Classics That’ll Actually Wreck You (In the Best Way)
25 modern classic books that belong on every reading list, from gut-punch literary fiction to genre-bending thrillers. Cormac McCarthy, Zadie Smith, Gillian Flynn, and more. These aren't dusty assignments, they're the books people are still talking about. Here's your no-BS guide to what's actually worth reading. -
25 Modern Classics That’ll Actually Wreck You (In the Best Way)
25 modern classic books that belong on every reading list, from gut-punch literary fiction to genre-bending thrillers. Cormac McCarthy, Zadie Smith, Gillian Flynn, and more. These aren't dusty assignments, they're the books people are still talking about. Here's your no-BS guide to what's actually worth reading. -
Ian McEwan calls for assisted dying rights to extend to dementia sufferers https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/28/ian-mcewan-calls-for-assisted-dying-rights-to-extend-to-dementia-sufferers #Books #IanMcewan #AssistedDying #Dementia #Culture #OlderPeople #Law #Society #UkNews
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‘We just have to stop doing bad things and do good things’
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I love reading new releases - five of my 2025 favourites you don't want to miss
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/love-reading-new-releases-five-36480145
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I love reading new releases - five of my 2025 favourites you don't want to miss
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/love-reading-new-releases-five-36480145
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I love reading new releases - five of my 2025 favourites you don't want to miss
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/love-reading-new-releases-five-36480145
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I love reading new releases - five of my 2025 favourites you don't want to miss
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/love-reading-new-releases-five-36480145
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I love reading new releases - five of my 2025 favourites you don't want to miss
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/love-reading-new-releases-five-36480145
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book review: Atonement by Ian McEwan ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Didn't think this would be my cup o tea, but it is almost impossible to find a fault.
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“Now, at an age when many #novelists ease up on the throttle, he has synthesized all of these strains into something close to a #masterwork.” www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1... #IanMcEwan #books #BookSky
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Ian McEwan on Imagining the World After Disaster
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“It’s as if we stand before a giant doorway in which we lose faith in the #future. I call it metaphysical gloom.” www.cbc.ca/books/booken... #IanMcEwan #books #BookSky
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Ian McEwan’s National AI Service
A vision of LLMs as encountered in the 2130s after societal recovery from a near-terminal civilisational collapse. From What We Can Know pg 116:
Our students are permitted limited access to NAI. To prevent over-dependence, they must sit before an approved desktop. They also need to wait five days before they get their next shot. The kids mostly want advice on relationships, parents, music, fashion and money. They murmur their confessions and questions and get an immediate response. The Machine, as they like to call it, knows when it is being asked to write a student essay and will terminate the session. In written form, guidance can run to half a dozen single-spaced pages and is, I think, sensible and robust, though I know that others disagree. The tone is comradely. A response to an anxious question from a nineteen-year-old might begin, ‘I believe she’s trying to tell you something here and I’d say it’s time for you to be more reflective and analytical about your own behaviour. Remember the trouble you were in last year.’
NAI knows about a respondent’s life in intimate detail and its memory, of course, is long. The kids like that. They feel important, known and cared for. They are proud of an accumulating dossier that tells of their escapades, successes, disasters and growth. NAI is a friendly aunt, concerned, critical and worldly. The young make confessions to her they would not dare make to close friends or parents. Dossiers can swell by more than 200 pages a year. The kids boast to each other of admonitions as well as praise they’ve received. They enter early adult life as heroes in an epic of trivia and passion. Young newlyweds can destroy a marriage by swapping files, but many insist on it. People continue their consultations through life and seem reassured that neither the state nor commercial entities have access to the material. But confess to a crime and NAI will turn you in.
Most of us in the Humanities Department are wary of taking personal problems to a lifeless piece of software, however sophisticated. Our privileged allotment is every other day. Over in Science and Tech they have unlimited access. The scientists we know are more inclined to take their marriage or career problems to NAI. Along our corridor we tend to approach it as a research tool. I’ve made use of her during my Blundy research and received useful notes on background reading and social contexts. NAI lets me know who’s doing what in my field, who might be trespassing on my territory and who is following an interesting lead.
Rose was forthright. ‘Idiot! Don’t you dare give up. Talk to NAI.’ I resisted, then one afternoon, with little else to do, I sketched out some questions for this beloved program that some in the Philosophy Department believe has attained consciousness. Nonsense, the hard tech people have told me. Pure projection. NAI is no better than the systems of the 2030s. Lack of progress hasn’t been down to know-how. Our various forms of disaster and chaos have blocked the development of better machines and software. No gallium and germanium or even copper in the Surrey Hills! I asked NAI to go back to the two years before and the immediate period after the Second Immortal Dinner and speculate freely for me about the network of private relations around Blundy, and to suggest where I might take my investigations next. Most of what came back was familiar
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It’s Big Release Tuesday! Welcome to September 23rd, 2025 – #NationalGreatAmericanPotPieDay 🥧 Fall 🍂 is officially here, and today’s new releases are stacked high, ready for readers to devour. 📚
🔖 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by #KiranDesai
🔖 The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze by #DerrickBarnes
🔖 What We Can Know by #IanMcEwanRead more about these new books, and see all the new books releasing today at our site.
#books #newbooks #newreleases
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‘What We Can Know’ review: In Ian McEwan’s future, the past is elusive
Book Review What We Can KnowBy Ian McEwanKnopf: 320 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our…
#NewsBeep #News #Books #achievement #biographer #blundy #CA #Canada #Entertainment #event #fundamentalfact #ianmcewan #journal #land #metcalfe #novel #past #poem #Story #vivien #year
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What We Can Know by Ian McEwan review – the limits of liberalism https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/16/what-we-can-know-by-ian-mcewan-review-the-limits-of-liberalism #IanMcEwan #Culture #Fiction #Books
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Denis Scheck in Druckfrisch (14.09.2025): Kafka, Ian McEwan und 20.000 Elefanten https://www.lesering.de/id/4945949/Denis-Scheck-in-Druckfrisch-14092025-Kafka-neu-lesen-Ian-McEwan-ueber-die-Zukunft-Kritik-zur-Spiegel-Bestsellerliste-und-Gaea-Schoeters-Roman-Das-Geschenk/ #SpiegelBestsellerSachbuch #SpiegelBestsellerliste #Waswirwissenkönnen #Literaturkritik #NeueBücher2025 #ARDDruckfrisch #SpiegelTopTen #GaeaSchoeters #Druckfrisch #DasGeschenk #DenisScheck #Buchkritik #FranzKafka #IanMcEwan #TV
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From shocking short stories to a talking foetus: Ian McEwan’s 10 best books – ranked! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/15/from-shocking-short-stories-to-a-talking-foetus-ian-mcewans-10-best-books-ranked #Shortstories #IanMcEwan #Culture #Fiction #Books
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Heute eine schöne Sendung mit Ian McEwan in der „Sternstunde Philosophie“ auf #SRF!
#sternstundephilosophie #ianmcewan
https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/redirect/detail/6c17abde-170f-4f6e-8354-17c0ce0e65ec
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Faccio presente che quando ancora frequentavo Xitter ogni tanto mi arrivavano twit intesi per la #OblomovEdizioni —uno dei problemi dello “spazio dei nomi globale” di quelle piattaforme.
Non illustrato: buono regalo ad una libreria presso la quale a breve ovviamente mi comprerò altri #fumetti d'autore.
(special mention: @jmechner, penso che comincerò la lettura dal suo #Replay)
#StarWars #totoro #IanMcEwan #igort #SergioToppi #edizioniNPE
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Faccio presente che quando ancora frequentavo Xitter ogni tanto mi arrivavano twit intesi per la #OblomovEdizioni —uno dei problemi dello “spazio dei nomi globale” di quelle piattaforme.
Non illustrato: buono regalo ad una libreria presso la quale a breve ovviamente mi comprerò altri #fumetti d'autore.
(special mention: @jmechner, penso che comincerò la lettura dal suo #Replay)
#StarWars #totoro #IanMcEwan #igort #SergioToppi #edizioniNPE
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Faccio presente che quando ancora frequentavo Xitter ogni tanto mi arrivavano twit intesi per la #OblomovEdizioni —uno dei problemi dello “spazio dei nomi globale” di quelle piattaforme.
Non illustrato: buono regalo ad una libreria presso la quale a breve ovviamente mi comprerò altri #fumetti d'autore.
(special mention: @jmechner, penso che comincerò la lettura dal suo #Replay)
#StarWars #totoro #IanMcEwan #igort #SergioToppi #edizioniNPE
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Faccio presente che quando ancora frequentavo Xitter ogni tanto mi arrivavano twit intesi per la #OblomovEdizioni —uno dei problemi dello “spazio dei nomi globale” di quelle piattaforme.
Non illustrato: buono regalo ad una libreria presso la quale a breve ovviamente mi comprerò altri #fumetti d'autore.
(special mention: @jmechner, penso che comincerò la lettura dal suo #Replay)
#StarWars #totoro #IanMcEwan #igort #SergioToppi #edizioniNPE
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Faccio presente che quando ancora frequentavo Xitter ogni tanto mi arrivavano twit intesi per la #OblomovEdizioni —uno dei problemi dello “spazio dei nomi globale” di quelle piattaforme.
Non illustrato: buono regalo ad una libreria presso la quale a breve ovviamente mi comprerò altri #fumetti d'autore.
(special mention: @jmechner, penso che comincerò la lettura dal suo #Replay)
#StarWars #totoro #IanMcEwan #igort #SergioToppi #edizioniNPE
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My review of 'The Cockroach', the Brexit novella by #IanMcEwan. #Bookstodon
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Ian McEwan criticises hiring of ‘sensitivity readers’ looking for offensive material in manuscripts
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/03/ian-mcewan-criticises-hiring-of-sensitivity-readers-looking-for-offensive-material-in-manuscripts?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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I've been reading 'Lessons' by Ian McEwan. It is a long book at almost 500 pages. I was sorry when I got to the end. That says a lot. Here is my review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/26a9b69c-9c15-489a-ac0e-128f63a0ea6b
#books
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Just finished and REALLY enjoyed "Machines Like Me" by #IanMcEwan. Particularly in light of all the recent #chatGPT #AI stuff. A bit of #alternativeHistory too.
@bookstodon #books #currentlyReading #nowReading
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/0362878a-2517-4807-83aa-b4df48908c39
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I see the #Bookstodon crowd has been posting 5-7 of their favorite authors, with the authors' names as hashtags. It's tough to limit it to only seven, but, off the top of my head:
#PercivalEverett
#KazuoIshiguro
#ZadieSmith
#ElenaFerrante
#NgugiWaThiongo
#JulianBarnes
#IanMcEwan