In Ian McEwan’s ‘What We Can Know,’ the past is an irresistible riddle

But then there came a moment — say around 2016 — when he published “Nutshell,” about a ruminative, vengeful fetus, and it felt like we might have lost McEwan to the kinds of weird little novels that writers produce after they win the Nobel Prize. The sex robot in “Machines Like Me” and the large ins...

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