Dystopian fiction is now a firm fixture in our literary landscape. Ian McEwan’s stylish, cunning “What We Can Know” takes a whack at the genre.

And so this is the query we put to eight of the brilliant authors on the line-up at this year’s Hay Literature Festival, including the recent recipient of its medal for prose, Elif Shafak, whose ...

In the future, Britain is partly submerged by rising seas – but what do people remember of the past? NPR's Scott Simon talks to British author Ian McEwan about his new novel, "What We Can Know." ...