Ian McEwan on Imagining the World After Disaster
In a conversation with David Remnick at the 92nd Street Y, novelist Ian McEwan reflects on his literary evolution, the moral weight of storytelling, and his latest speculative novel, What We Can Know, which imagines a future shaped by climate collapse and nuclear war. The episode lands
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